Alan Turing is often considered the father of theoretical computer science and AI. He was a brilliant mathematician and technologist who dreamed up a machine that could solve any problem. This led him to create the Turing machine, which isn’t an actual machine. At least, not as we think of it. The Turing machine was a mathematical model. The model in itself was made of nothing but positives and negatives (which evolved into modern-day binary’s ones and zeroes), but it could simulate the logic of any algorithm.
The binary computer was born.
Turing would go on to lead the team that cracked critical German ciphers during WWII. He died on June 7, 1954, at the age of 41.
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