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Genius Among Geniuses
A Cambridge graduate and Princeton PhD, Alan Turing was the mathematical genius at the heart of Bletchley Park. Critical to Allied success, Turing was one of many hard-working, brilliant eccentrics working there. He wore a gas mask to prevent hay fever and chained his coffee mug to a radiator.
At age 26, Turing conceived the theory of programmable computers, and he was one of the first scientists to address the problem of artificial intelligence. He designed the high-speed Bombe and, though he did not work on Colossus, after the war he was a pioneer in computer science at the National Physical Laboratory and the University of Manchester. |