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Alan Turing
English computer scientist
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dead
- born
- 1912
- died
- 1954
- age at death
- 41
- known for
- computer scientist, cryptographer
1912 – 1954
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who alan turing is
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.
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