bornJune 23, 1912
diedJuly 07, 1954
nationalityEnglish
occupationLogician
Alan Turing is the forefather of Computer Science. He laid out the theoretical foundations of the field, with the invention of the Turing machine and the study of computational approaches to undecidable problems. In 1936, he published On Computable Numbers, a seminal and foundational paper in Computer Science that kick started the whole field of Computability Theory.
In 1950, he published another seminal paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, where he devises a thought experiment to determine whether a computer can think, that has since been known as The Turing Test.