Alan Turing

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Born: 1912-06-23
Died: 1954-06-07
From: Maida Vale, London, England, UK
Gender: Male
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Biography

Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (1912–1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

Awards & Nominations4 won · 0 nominated

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Fellow of the Royal Society

1951
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire

1946
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Smith's Prize

1936
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Order of the British Empire