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Alan Turing was a British mathematician, who is considered to be the father of computer science. He was leader of the team that cracked the supposedly unbreakable German Enigma code during World War II. His concepts and prototype computing machine that broke the code was the beginning of our computer-filled world today.
So for Turing's brilliance that conceived the first computing machine, I am thankful.
Note:
There are many books on Alan Turing and the Bletchly Park code breaking effort during World War II. A quick Google or check of Amazon will give a list of many of them. Also, there is a movie based on Turing's life called the Imitation Game. It gives a fair picture of his life with cinematic license taken, of course.
Also, I realize that any invention always has several people involved or other people in another part of the world who may have been working on the same idea.
