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Nerds You Should Know #5 (cont)

Alan Turing

  
  • Founder of Computer Science
  • 1930's Maths/Physics at Cambridge
  • 1936 The Turing Machine
    (framework for computability theory)
  • 1940-45 Code breaker
    (cracked Enigma code at Bletchley Park)
  • 1946-50 Designed early computer
  • Papers on neural nets, programming, chess computers
  • 1950 Posed the "Turing Test" for AI
  • 1954 Suicide by poisoned apple

Biography:   "Alan Turing: The Enigma"   by   Andrew Hodges