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Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic, and in so doing helped win the war.

His work enabled the Enigma to be decoded - By early 1942, the team at Bletchley Park were decoding up to 39,000 Enigma messages a month. Eventually this number rose to 84,000 or about two messages decoded every minute.

Turing's war work is believed to have shortened the war - Many people, including Winston Churchill, claimed that Turing's work shortened the Second World War by at least two years.

Turing was a member of the team which decoded the 'Fish' cipher - The 'Fish' cipher which was used towards the end of the war by the German High Command to transmit messages between Hitler and senior officers in the field.

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How much does Alan Turing earn a year?

Alan Turing died in 1954, and at the present time he is not earning anything.


Who created the test that provided a foundation for Artificial Intelligence?

Alan Mathison Turing created the test for Artificial Intelligence known as the Turing Test.Turing Test helps in identifying/declaring whether a machine is intelligent or not.


Who created a test that provided a foundation for artificial intelligence?

If by Test you are pointing to the very well known "Turing Test".This test was developed by Alan Turing and was published in his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in the year 1950


How many awards Alan turing got?

Alan Turing received several posthumous awards and recognitions for his contributions to computer science and cryptography, but during his lifetime, he was not widely recognized. Notably, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951. In 2013, he was granted a royal pardon for his conviction for homosexuality, and in 2019, the Turing Award, named in his honor, was established as a prestigious recognition in computer science. Overall, while Turing did not receive many formal awards during his life, his legacy has been celebrated extensively since his death.


Who proved that a machine was capable of processing a stream of 1s and 0s was capable of solving any problem?

Alan Turing devised the Turing Machine which can be described as a robot which can look at one cell on an infinitely long tape of cells and then, based on what is in that cell and a given program either change the symbol in the cell and/or move the robot to look at the cell to the left/right of the current cell. Alan Turing then went on to prove that it was possible to write a program for this machine that could do the same as the program written for any other computing machine (it might take a very, very, very long time to do it but it would do it). However, some programs are impossible to write; for example it is impossible to write a program which will tell you if a program given to it as input will terminate or not (which Alan Turing proved); this is known as the halting problem.