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In his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (Mind 49: 433-460) Turing proposed a test (apparently heavily influenced by [[Logical Positivism]]) for establishing whether a computer could think.

In his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (Mind 49: 433-460) Turing proposed a test (apparently heavily influenced by [[Logical Positivism]]) for establishing whether a computer could think.

His arrest in 1952 for [[homosexuality]] and the subsequent withdrawal of his security clearance may have contributed to his suicide by [[cyanide]] poisoning in 1954.<ref>http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/index.html</ref>

Turing was arrested in 1952 for [[homosexuality]] and subsequently lost his security clearance. He was allowed to stay out of prison by agreeing to be injected with female hormones (which would supposedly descrease his sex drive).  He later confided to a friend that the hormones caused him to grow breasts.<ref>''Oddballs and Eccentrics''.  Shaw, Karl.  Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 2004</ref>  This may have contributed to his suicide by [[cyanide]] poisoning in 1954.<ref>http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/index.html</ref>

 

==References==

==References==

Online biography:  http://www.turing.org.uk/bio/

Online biography:  http://www.turing.org.uk/bio/