Alan Turing, the British mathematician (1912-1954), is famous for a number of breakthroughs, which altered the course of the 20th century. In 1936 he published a paper, which laid the foundation of computer science, providing the first formal concept of a computer algorithm. He next played a pivotal role in the Second World War, designing the machines which cracked the German military codes, enabling the Allies to defeat the Nazis in several crucial battles. And in the late 1940s he turned his attention to artificial intelligence and proposed a challenge, now called the Turing test, which is still important to the field today. Read more at: phys.org/news/2014-07-mathematical-theory-alan-turing-formation.html#jCp
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 04:00:00 +0000
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