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.

A famous #paper in #ComputerScience

authorAlan Turing
year1936

This is the paper where Alan Turing defines and formalizes the concept of algorithm with the invention of the Turing machine, and proves the existence of undecidable problems with the halting problem.

A #concept in #ComputerScience

A Turing machine is a computational model that captures and formalizes the intuitive notion of algorithm.

A famous #paper in #ComputerScience

authorAlan Turing
year1950

A #concept in #ComputerScience

The so-called “Turing Test” is a thought experiment devised by Alan Turing in 1950 as part of a philosophical essay on the nature of intelligence and rational thought, title Computing Machinery and Intelligence.