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Alan Turing
The mathematician who defined what computation is, helped break Enigma, designed an early stored-program computer, asked whether machines can think, and was prosecuted by the country he helped save.
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Prereqs: Logic & proofs; How computers work (CS). Next: John von Neumann. Sources: Andrew Hodges's *Alan Turing: The Enigma*; Turing (1936) 'On Computable Numbers' and (1950) 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence'; Crash Course Computer Science #15.Next: 1. Life