Alan Turing

 

Alan Mathison Turing is a famous computer scientist, logician, mathematician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Alan is well-known for developing theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.

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Alan Turing’s first major accomplishment came while he was at Princeton, where he developed the Church-Turing thesis. In 1935, at the age of 22, he was elected a Fellow of King’s College.

Important contributions and achievements

  1. Alan Turing invented the Automatic Computer Engine (ACE).
  2. He and his team developed ‘Bombe,’ an anti-enigma prototype model that translated Germany’s coded messages.
  3. He developed the Turing Test, which is an identification test to identify if a computer has artificial intelligence.
  4. Turing has the Bank of England 50-pound note dedicated to him.

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