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Extraction Summary
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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Quotes
Document Information
Type:
Book page / evidence file
File Size:
1.84 MB
Summary
This document appears to be page 212 from a book titled 'Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?', included in a House Oversight evidence production (stamped HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015902). The text is a historical narrative detailing Alan Turing's early work on computing, his time at Princeton with Alonzo Church, his return to England, and his work at Bletchley Park cracking the Enigma code using the 'bombe' machine.
People (4)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Alan Turing | Subject |
Mathematician and code-breaker described in the text.
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| Alonzo Church | Mathematician |
Based at the Institute of Advanced Mathematics; one of the few who could assess Turing's paper.
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| Albert Einstein | Physicist |
Mentioned as being housed at the Institute for Advanced Study next door to Church.
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| Polish mathematicians | Code-breakers |
Had discovered flaws in Enigma and were debriefed by Turing.
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| London Mathematical Society |
Recipient of Turing's scientific paper.
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| Institute of Advanced Mathematics |
Located in the USA on the Princeton University campus.
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| Princeton University |
Where Turing completed his doctoral thesis.
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| Institute for Advanced Study |
Housed Einstein; located next to the Institute of Advanced Mathematics.
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| Bletchley Park |
Home of the top-secret British code-breaking group.
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Timeline (2 events)
1937
Turing travelled to America and completed his doctoral thesis at Princeton.
Princeton, USA
Relationships (1)
Church was one of the few people who could assess Turing's paper.
Key Quotes (2)
"The nearest thing he had to a 'computer' at the time was a human mindlessly but methodically calculating something with pencil and paper!"Source
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Quote #1
"The machine acquired the nickname 'a bombe', perhaps because of the ominous ticking sound it made as it calculated"Source
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Quote #2
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