Alan Turing
Mathematician
Notable Achievement
Computer science pioneer and Enigma codebreaker
Biography
Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician and logician widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science. He formalised the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, a model of a general-purpose computer, and his contributions to cryptanalysis helped the Allies of World War II decipher messages encrypted by the German Enigma machine. He also contributed the Turing test to philosophy of artificial intelligence and the Turing pattern concept to mathematical and theoretical biology.
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Birthday Date
Alan Turing was born on June 23