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Father of Modern Computing to Appear on Banknote

Alan Turing, the man 30                           recognised as being the father of modern computer science, has been honored by being selected to appear on a United Kingdom banknote. Mr Turing was chosen ahead of a wealth of notable British 31                           figures and luminaries to be the face of the new £50 note. Turing was instrumental in helping Britain and its allies win World War II. He led a team of codebreakers to 32                           the Enigma code the Nazis used to send messages to warships and military commanders. He invented the now famous British Bombe to do this. This was a giant computer, 33                           ushered in the birth of modern computing and the beginnings of artificial intelligence.

Alan Turing was a mathematical genius who also excelled in the sciences. He was born in London in 1912. He graduated 34                           Cambridge University and then outlined his vision for creating an algorithm-based computing machine. He said of his invention, “This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.” His idea is central to the computers we use today. His brilliance led to his being asked to join the WWII code-breaking team.

Turing went on to hold high-ranking positions in the mathematics department and later the computing laboratory at the University of Manchester in the late 1940s. He first addressed the issue of artificial intelligence in his 1950 paper, “Computing machinery and 35                          ,” and proposed an experiment known as the “Turing Test” – an effort to create an intelligence design standard for the tech industry. Over the past several decades, the test has significantly influenced debates 36                           artificial intelligence.