Alan Turing

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English mathematician who conceived of the Turing machine and broke German codes during World War II (1912-1954)

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Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic. George Dyson

A bridge carrying this road was widened, and carries the name Alan Turing Bridge. Source: Internet

Alan Turing considers: "non-constructive systems of logic with which not all the steps in a proof are mechanical, some being intuitive". Source: Internet

Alan Turing writes, "all digital computers are in a sense equivalent."sfn The widely accepted Church-Turing thesis holds that any function computable by an effective procedure is computable by a Turing machine. Source: Internet

Alan Turing and John von Neumann were instrumental in these developments. Source: Internet

Alan Turing: computer scientist and namesake developer of the Turing Test as a method of measuring the intelligence of a machine. Source: Internet

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