Alan Turing

"Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself."

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Source: B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press

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Alan Turing

Alan Turing

Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst

Alan Turing was a mathematician and computer scientist known for his pivotal role in developing theoretical computer science and breaking the Enigma code during WWII.

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