Alan Turing

The logician who defined computation before computers existed, broke Enigma at Bletchley, and asked whether machines can think.

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1912 – 1954

Core Principles & Analysis

• His 1936 paper defined the universal machine and proved the halting problem undecidable.
• At Bletchley Park he led the Hut 8 attack on the naval Enigma.
• His 1950 Mind paper proposed the imitation game — the Turing test — as an answer to 'can machines think?'.