Alan Turing

Background

An English mathematician and logician, and a codebreaker at Bletchley Park.

Contribution

Defined the theoretical model of computation (the Turing machine, 1936) that underlies all general-purpose computers, and advanced early computing and AI.

Associated inventions

• Programmable Computing

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Charles Babbage
• Ada Lovelace
• Konrad Zuse

Sources & further reading

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• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia
• Computer History Museum — exhibits & timelineComputer History Museum · Museum

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