Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic it has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over fourteen million lives.Īfter the war, he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the ACE, among the first designs for a stored-program computer. He devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bombe method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. For a time he led Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.ĭuring the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. \)Īlan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/ 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist.
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