The computers that we rely on today owe much of their existence to a man whose brilliance went largely unrecognized during his lifetime. Alan Turing was a British mathematician whose groundbreaking ideas helped lay the foundations of modern computing and whose secret work during World War II contributed to the Allied victory.
Turing imagined a future in which machines might think, decades before artificial intelligence became a reality. But despite his remarkable achievements, Turing was persecuted by the very country he had helped protect, and his life ended tragically at just 41.
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