Alan Turing

 

1923-1972.  Turing is considered by many to be the father of Computer Science.During WW II Germany used encryption to protect their strategic communications and the work to break those codes was given the highest priority. The work under the supervision of Turing was very successful thanks to the use of machines that later developed into the first computers.

Many of Germany's secret messages could be deciphered and read.He developed a concept of a theoretical computing machine, the Turing Machine, whose ideas are fundamental to all modern computers.He developed a test, now incorporated in an international competition called the Loebner Prize, to determine whether a robot was just a machine or should be considered a human.