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Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( /ˈtjʊərɪŋ/ TEWR-ing; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he was head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.
After the war he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE. In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology. He wrote a paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis, and he predicted oscillating chemical reactions such as the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, which were first observed in the 1960s.
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Time, standing all alone
I bled for you, I wanted to
Each drop, my own
Slowly they depart
But fall in vain like desert rain
And still they fall on and on and on
Got to get back to a reason
Got to get back to a reason, I once knew
And this late in the seasons
One by one distractions fade from view
So, drifting through the dark
The sympathy of night's mercy
Inside my heart
Is your life the same
Do ghosts cry tears, do they feel years?
As time just goes on and on and on
Got to get back to a reason
Got to get back to a reason, I once knew
And this late in the seasons
One by one, distractions fade from view
Years come around, men can be found
Following orders
Years come around, planning is sound
Promises made
Years come around, tears on the ground
Blood stains the borders
Leaders abound, chances are down
No one's been saved
Give me one reason
For this dark treason
Every chance unsaid
Turn around, all dead
What went wrong?
Give me one reason
For this dark treason
Every chance unsaid
Turn around, all dead
What went wrong?
Drink until you drown
What else can I say?
You're falling down, you seek the ground
It's never far away
Can you live your life completely in a fall?
Until you're found, well underground
Your marker, very small
As my world, it keeps on spinning round
Have to get away
Have to ease the pain
I embrace the morphine child
And pump it in my veins
Burning through my heart
Fills in every hole
Makes my mind so blissful numb
And replaces my soul
Every moment drags me further
Down down, down down, down down, down down
Got to get back to a reason
Got to get back to a reason, I once knew
And this late in the seasons
One by one, distractions fade from view