Alan Turing#Alan
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#Alan Turing
Alan Turing · 1912–1954
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“Every phone, laptop, and server on Earth is a physical copy of one idea he wrote down in 1936, aged twenty-three — and the man who gave the modern world its brain was destroyed by that world for whom he loved.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“He defined, once and for all, what it means to "compute" — and in doing so built the machine you are reading this on, then asked the deepest question about it: could such a machine ever think?”
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