The Turing Institute was established in 1983 as a not-for-profit company and named in honour of the late Alan M. Turing, the mathematician and logician. It was dedicated to providing an environment for research, teaching and development in the field of applied artificial intelligence accessible to both industrial clients and academic researchers. The Institute's research staff worked closely with different departments of the University of Strathclyde.
The Institute closed in the early 1990s.