"I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted."Alan Turing (left) was a hero to the British people and the free world whose work cracking the codes of Axis powers saved lives and helped the war effort.
He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the
Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer