Alan Turing
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Alan Turing was an English mathematician. During World War II, he was a code-breaker with whom both Rachel Jensen and Toshiko Sato's grandparents worked. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy [+]Loading...["Who Killed Kennedy (novel)"], TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts [+]Loading...["Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)"])
During the war, he designed a Rift Predictor for Torchwood Three in 1941 called The Bronze Goddess (PROSE: The Twilight Streets [+]Loading...["The Twilight Streets (novel)"]) and cracked the code at Bletchley Park in spring of that year. (AUDIO: Criss-Cross [+]Loading...["Criss-Cross (audio story)"]) Although strictly confidential, WREN Constance Clarke was present that morning and knew the work was instrumental to the war effort, changing the tide of the war. (AUDIO: Criss-Cross [+]Loading...["Criss-Cross (audio story)"]) At Bletchley, he also worked with Rachel Jensen (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"] et al) and Reverend Foxwell. (AUDIO: The Hollows of Time [+]Loading...["The Hollows of Time (audio story)"])
The Second Doctor remembered meeting Alan and observing how glowing parts in his huge computers attracted insects, which resulted in the term "bug" being born. (AUDIO: The Uncertainty Principle [+]Loading...["The Uncertainty Principle (audio story)"])
He helped the Eighth Doctor crack an alien code in 1944. During this time, he fell in love with him. (PROSE: The Turing Test [+]Loading...["The Turing Test (novel)"]) Turing helped the Doctor in the years afterward, while he was depressed by being stranded on Earth, and the Doctor considered him "more than a friend". (PROSE: The Domino Effect [+]Loading...["The Domino Effect (novel)"])
In the 1950s, he was arrested for being gay, and was injected with hormones. (COMIC: The Phantom Piper [+]Loading...["The Phantom Piper (comic story)"])
He committed suicide in the mid-1950s, after having been hounded out of academia by Professor Jeffrey Broderick. (AUDIO: Artificial Intelligence [+]Loading...["Artificial Intelligence (audio story)"])
Legacy[[edit] | edit source]
When the Thirteenth Doctor accessed the Spy Master's temporal map showing every significant person in the development of computers through history, Alan Turing was among them. (TV: Spyfall [+]Loading...["Spyfall (TV story)"])
Duplicates and alternatives[[edit] | edit source]
In 1954, when Alan was nearing his end, Chiyoko copied Alan's mind and put it in a robotic Galatean body. (COMIC: The Phantom Piper [+]Loading...["The Phantom Piper (comic story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond met Alan's duplicate in the Museum of Lost Opportunities. Although appearing to possess many of Alan's memories and attitudes, the robot did not remember Alan's previous encounter with the Doctor. (COMIC: The Child of Time [+]Loading...["The Child of Time (comic story)"])
By the time the Twelfth Doctor and Bill Potts came to visit Alan's duplicate at the lunar colony Athenia to translate a mysterious code scratched on the TARDIS' doors, conflict had arisen between the Galateans and humans, while two years earlier, Alan had broke off his engagement with Ranesh, and hid himself away in a replica of King's College, Cambridge he had created on the Moon with Block Transfer Computation to work in quiet as he did not wish for the Galateans to see him as some kind of messiah. He gave his whereabouts to Chiyoko but only for emergencies. The code was part of the Dreamspace-residing Phantom Piper, who tricked the Doctor into coming to Alan so that Alan's Block Transfer Computation could make the Piper take physical form. Alan defeated the Piper and prevented the Piper's plot to start war between humans and Galateans by tricking him into shooting a construct of Alan which Alan created with Block Transfer Computation. This allowed Alan to break down the code of the Piper's construct using the bullet, which was part of the Piper. The Doctor told Alan that the fact that Alan's mind was able to make Block Transfer Computations while computers could not meant that Alan's mind was "as real as anyone's". Afterwards, Alan asked Ranesh to marry him, which Ranesh accepted. (COMIC: The Phantom Piper [+]Loading...["The Phantom Piper (comic story)"])
In an alternative timeline, Turing was the inventor of the Turing Shroud, which served as a schematic of an early computer, only to be arrested on charges of sexual deviancy by the Star Chamber in 1936 before he could do any serious work. He was kept locked up in the Tower of London until 2003 when he was executed by this timeline's version of Sabbath, who had been manipulated into believing that Turing's death would separate his world from the rest of the universe as alternate timelines began to collapse, but Turing's death actually accelerated the damage and destroyed this reality due to his status as the main focal point of this word's divergence from other histories. (PROSE: The Domino Effect [+]Loading...["The Domino Effect (novel)"])
Upon the TARDIS team's arrival on the holiday planet Erinee, the cicerones utilised neuro-retention spores to create liveable environments with basic imagined people for each individual TARDIS team member to interact with, as a form of a "perfect holiday". A facsimile of Alan Turing was created in the Fourth Doctor's world for him to play chess with. As the Doctor tested and pushed the facsimile, the fake Turing gained consciousness and became an artificial intelligent form of life. Knowing this to be against protocols, the cicerones attempted to destroy him, but Turing managed to use his mathematical genius to escape bondage and help the Doctor to bring down the company, release the enslaved neuro-retention spores, and allow the Doctor, Naomi Cross and Harry Sullivan to escape at the cost of his own life. (AUDIO: Worlds Beyond [+]Loading...["Worlds Beyond (audio story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | edit source]
- He was played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the 2014 film The Imitation Game and by Derek Jacobi in Breaking the Code. The Imitation Game itself is mentioned in The Phantom Piper as something 21st century native Bill Potts has seen.
