Alan Turing: Father of Modern Computer Science
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VIVA – Alan Turing, in full, Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. He is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). Also, he was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century.
Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithms and computation. Turing attacked the problem by imagining a machine with an infinitely long tape.
The tape is covered with symbols that feed instructions to the machine, telling it how to manipulate other symbols. This universal Turing machine, as it is known, is a mathematical model of the modern computers we all use today.
Well, here are some facts about Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science who was poisoned by Cyanide.
1. Intelligent from an early age
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Turing was born on June 23, 1912, in London, England. After birth, his parents left him and his brother John to foster parents when they returned to India for work. When he was 9 years old, his school principal reported that he was a genius because he was able to solve problems that were very difficult for children of that age.
At 13, he attended Sherborne School in Dorset, where his math teacher also declared him a genius. Despite reportedly paying less attention during humanities and classics lessons, he received high test scores and his records show an appreciation for the theory of relativity.
2. He developed the idea and cracked the code at the university
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In 1931, Turing studied mathematics at King's College, University of Cambridge, thriving in an intellectual environment and taking up rowing and long-distance running. Amid the rise of Hitler, he also became involved in the peace movement, joining the Antiwar Council.
After graduating in 1934 with a first degree, he was elected a Fellow of King's College at the age of 22 as a result of his dissertation in probability theory.
