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The Rutherford Journal - The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

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I first met Dr Alan Turing in early 1953 after I had just graduated with a degree in Mathematics. I was keen to do research for a Master’s Degree and, because I had studied Physics and Statistics, in addition to the standard Pure and Applied Mathematics within my Degree Course, a wide choice was available. But I had heard about this new electronic computer housed in an adjacent building. The Ferranti-built Mark I computer had been purchased by the Royal Society and installed in the newly-built Computing Laboratory of the University of Manchester in 1951. I was introduced to Dr Tony Brooker, the Deputy Head of the Laboratory and Head of Programming, who told me about Turing’s achievements in the Laboratory. So when I met with Turing later that day I recognised that here was a genius, since having heard about his programming talents in that morning and his Morphogenesis work in that afternoon, he seemed to me to transcend both. I left that introductory meeting knowing that, whilst I had

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