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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Tim Berners-Lee, Stan Kelly-Bootle, Nick Palmer, James Anderson, A.S. Douglas, Dave Raggett, Conway Berners-Lee, Rebecca Grinter, Peter Landin, Mark A. O'Neill, Ronald Stamper, Christopher Strachey, Martin Henson, Peter J. Bentley, Wendy Hall, D.W. Barron, Steve Reeves, Sue Black, Ian Bayley, Nigel Shadbolt, Steve Grand, David De Roure, Hugh McGregor Ross, Steve Linford, Richard Bornat, John G.F. Francis, J. C. P. Miller, Mark Harman, Michael Hennell, Alan Burns, Samuel Fedida, Michael Collins, Andy Wellings, Martin Dyer, Jim Davies, Graham Kendall, Chris Tofts, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Paul Reilly, Richard Bird, Geoff Walsham, John Michael Spivey, Steve Kille, Ian Cullimore, Martin Woodward, John Fitch. Excerpt: Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( -ing; 23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. During the Second World War, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre. For a time he was head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. After the war he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE. Towards the end of his life Turing became interested in mathem...
