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ALAN TURING - Coggle Diagram
ALAN TURING
Personal Information
Father of computer science
Born in London in 1912
Studied at Cambridge and Princeton
Main Contributions
World War II
Saved 14 million lives and shortened the war by 2 years
Decoded Enigma codes with the "Bombe"
Modern Computing
Developed the Automatic Computing Engine
Turing Machine
first theoretical model of a computer
Turing Test
The interrogator talks to a machine and a human without seeing them
The machine "thinks" if the interrogator cannot tell the difference
Checks artificial intelligence
Personal Challenges
Underwent chemical castration
Died by suicide in 1954
Persecuted for being homosexual (illegal at the time)
Legacy
Founder of artificial intelligence and modern cryptography