Alan Turing

Turing (1912 – 1954) was a highly influential English mathematician, widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence

Born in Maide Vale, London, he is associated for many people with the top-secret wartime operations of Britain’s code-breakers at Bletchley Park, a sprawling estate north of London, where he oversaw and inspired the effort to decrypt ciphers generated by Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine, which had once seemed impenetrable. The Germans themselves regarded the codes as unbreakable. ^[1]