Alan Turing reader in mathematics University of Manchester (1948-1954)

Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. He was highly influential in the development of 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.^[3][4] Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.^[5]

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