Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954) was a British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer.

Turing in fiction

• Turing appears as a character in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
• In another one of Stephenson's books, The Diamond Age, there is a very good explanation of Turing's work put into the format of a child's book.
• The play Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore deals with the life and death of Turing.
• "Turing Police" (Artificial Intelligence law enforcers) appear in William Gibson's Neuromancer.
• In White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness role-playing universe, Turing was a leading member of the faction known as the Virtual Adepts.
• An FBI agent named Alan Turing made an appearance in the webcomic Questionable Content as a homage to Turing.
• Appears in Enigma by Robert Harris