Alan Turing
Name:
Alan Mathison Turing
Born: June 23, 1912 in Maida
Vale, London, England,
United Kingdom
Died: June 7, 1954
Computer related contributions
- English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
- Developed the Turing Machine in 1936.
- Credited as the founder of computer science
- Developed the Turing Test.
- Since 1966, the Turing Award has been given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person for technical contributions to the computing community. It is widely considered to be the computing world's highest honour, equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
Honors and awards
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Fellow of the Royal Society