Alan Turing
1912 - 1954
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Biography
Alan Turing was a British mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst who is often referred to as the 'father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence'. During World War II, he played a crucial role in breaking the German Enigma code, contributing significantly to the Allied victory. Turing's work laid the foundation for modern computing and he is best known for the Turing machine concept, which formed the basis of computer science.
Famous Quotes (5)
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Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.