Alan Turing
Born: 1912-06-23
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.
The Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code: The Story of Alan Turing
as Self (archive footage)Released: 2014-06-06
During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted...
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