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After gathering folk tales from books and committing oral stories to paper. Alan turing was het tweede kind van julius mathison en ethel sara turing. Knighthood is not awarded posthumously and there are several arguments why that should be. The turing archive contains scans of some unpublished documents and material from the kings college, cambridge archive. Andrew hodges wadharn college, university of oxford. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the british mathematician alan turing 19121954 saved the allies from the nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decadesall before his. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the turing machine, which can be considered a model of a generalpurpose computer.
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