Why we should remember Alan Turing as a philosopher

Turing never returned to the National Physical Laboratory after his research leave. Instead, in May 1948, he joined his friend Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester, where shortly afterwards the world's first electronic stored-program general-purpose digital computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (commonly known as the Manchester Baby), ran its first program. Turing spent most of the remaining six years of his life continuing his research on AI. After completing the programming system of the expanded Manchester Mark I machine and the subsequent Ferranti Mark I, the world's first commercially available modern computer (manufactured by Ferranti Ltd), in early 1951 Turing began experimenting on the Ferranti. The early results of his computational modelling of biological growth were published in the paper'The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis' (1952), which represented an important early contribution to research on artificial life.