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Alan Turing

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Alan Matheson Turing, OBE, FRS, was a British computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He is known as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

Category
Scientists
Nationality
U.K.
Born
1912-06-23
Died
1954-06-07
Wikidata
Q7251
Occupations computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacherCryptozoologistLogicianstatisticianmarathon runnerartificial intelligence researcher
Aliases Alan M. TuringAlan Mathieson TuringAlan Mathison TuringAlan TuringTuringTuringTuringAlan TuringAlan TuringAlan TuringAlan Matheson Turing

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