Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    June 23, 1912 (112 years old) in Maida Vale, London, England, UK

    Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (1912–1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

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    The Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code: The Story of Alan TuringThe Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code: The Story of Alan Turing

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