Alan Turing was a British mathematician, computer scientist, logician, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. He is widely considered to be the Father of Modern Computer Science. He is also credited for reducing world war two by two years and saving millions of innocent lives when during the war, he worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park and helped crack the German Enigma code. He continued to work in the field of computer science after the war ended. He is also widely recognized for the invention of the Turing Test in his famous 1950 paper “Computer Machinery and Intelligence” named after him. He proposed in the paper a test that essentially could determine if a machine could exhibit intelligence that is identical to a human. Unfortunately, Alan Turing died by suicide on June 7, 1954, in the UK. The suicide resulted from his persecution for homosexuality which at the time was a criminal offense in the UK. He was forced to go through chemical castration.
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