Alan Turing — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Widely considered the father of theoretical computer science.
Developed the Turing machine, a model of a general-purpose computer.
Led Hut 8 at Bletchley Park, devising techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the Enigma machine, during WWII.
Designed the Automatic Computing Engine, one of the first designs for a stored-program computer.
Contributed to the development of early Manchester computers.
Earned a doctorate degree from Princeton University in 1938.

Biography

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. He is widely considered the father of theoretical computer science, having provided a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which serves as a model of a general-purpose computer.

Born in London, Turing graduated from King's College, Cambridge, and earned a doctorate degree from Princeton University in 1938.