article_snippet: On 8 June 1954, Turing's cleaner found Alan Turing dead.
article_snippet: An inquest determined that Alan Turing had committed suicide, and Alan Turing was cremated at Woking Crematorium on 12 June.
article_snippet: Several scholars, and even Alan Turing family, have suggested Turing's death was not suicide - and instead either an accident or linked to a conspiracy.
article_snippet: The theory was supported in an article in The Guardian written by Turing's friend, the author Alan Garner, in 2011.
article_snippet: Speaking on the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth on 23rd June 2012, Mr Copeland, questioned the evidence given to the inquiry in 1954.
article_snippet: Alan Turing's said there was no evidence of premeditation - there was no suicide note and Alan Turing's seemed to be in a cheerful mood in the days leading up to Alan Turing's death.
article_snippet: Alan Turing's added that Turing's career was at an all time high and that Alan Turing's would not want to intentionally kill Alan Turing's.
article_snippet: Alan Turing's pointer out that Alan Turing's friend Robin Gandy stayed with Alan Turing's a week before his death and Alan Turing's remarked how happy Turing seemed .
article_snippet: Finally, the academic remarked that the inquest was so bad that Turing could even have been murdered.
article_snippet: Alan Turing's Mr Copeland said Mr Copeland work at Bletchly Park was under strict secrecy until well after his death.
article_snippet: During the Second World War, Turing was pivotal in cracking the German Enigma codes, which gave vital information about Hitler’s forces.
article_snippet: Historians credit the work of Turing and Turing fellow codebreakers at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire with shortening the Second World War by up to two years, saving countless lives.
article_snippet: Turing is also widely seen as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.