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Alan Turing
Father of Computer Science; cracked Enigma in WWII; created the theoretical basis for modern computing
England ๐ฌ๐ง 1936 Pioneers & Inventors
Key Facts
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Proposed the Turing Machine (1936) โ theoretical model that defines the limits of what computers can compute
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Led the team at Bletchley Park that cracked the Nazi Enigma cipher โ credited with shortening WWII by 2+ years
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The Turing Test (1950): can a machine exhibit intelligent behaviour indistinguishable from a human? โ foundation of AI
๐ก Did you know? The UK government gave Turing a posthumous royal pardon in 2013; his face appears on the ยฃ50 note since 2021
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Father of Computer Science