HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE

ALAN MATHISON TURING

Formulated ideas for creating the modern computer

Bio:

Alan Mathison Turing, who designed the Turing Machine in the years before World War II and then helped crack the Nazis' Enigma code during the war, saving untold lives and hastening the war's end.

Links:

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Turing.html

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Turing.html

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