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Alan Turing, the name instantly reminds me of a cloudy winter morning in high school, when I was sitting in a dimly lit classroom, waiting for my computer science class to begin. The words "Turing Version 6.0" popped on to my computer screen as the program began to load under the dreadful crackling noise produced by the old dusty modem. I often wondered why it was called Turing, and it is now clear where the computer program got its name.
In 1912, Alan Mathison Turing was born in Paddington, London, to Julius Mathison and Ethel Sara Stoney. When Turing was young, he was sent to Hazlehurst Preparatory School and as an average student, he was already full of bright ideas. At 14, he completed his Common Entrance Examination and went to Sherborne Public School. There, he won almost every mathematics prize possible. He felt that public school education did not satisfy his intellectual needs and towering expectations. His interests in chemistry and mathematics did not stop him from......

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