Is Alan Turing the most important?

Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer….Alan Turing.

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Was turing a genius?

Turing was a brilliant mathematician, before he’d even earned a Master’s Degree he wrote probably the second-most-important academic paper of the 20th century – second only to Albert Einstein’s paper on General Relativity.

What did Alan Turing contribute to computer science?

Alan Turing—an English mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst—was a computer pioneer. Often remembered for his contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and modern computer science (before either even existed), Turing is probably best known for what is now dubbed the “Turing Test.”

Is there a university named after Alan Turing?

Posthumous tributes. One of the amphitheatres of the Computer Science department ( LIFL) at the University of Lille in northern France is named in honour of Alan M. Turing (the other amphitheatre is named after Kurt Gödel ). The University of Washington has a computer laboratory named after Turing.

What was the posthumous tribute to Alan Turing?

Posthumous tributes. On 13 March 2000, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines issued a set of postage stamps to celebrate the greatest achievements of the 20th century, one of which carries a portrait of Turing against a background of repeated 0s and 1s, and is captioned: “1937: Alan Turing’s theory of digital computing”.

What did Alan Turing do to avoid jail?

Turing was able to avoid jail time, but he lost his security clearances and was required to undergo “chemical sterilization” through hormone therapy. In 2013, more than 60 years after his conviction, Turing was granted a rare formal pardon by Queen Elizabeth II.