The Amazing Alan Turing Who Won the War and Was Branded a Criminal

The father of modern computing.

Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23rd June 1912 to an ordinary family. His father was a civil servant.

In 1932, he went to Cambridge University to study mathematics, where he published a paper on computable numbers. This paper would lead to considerable advancements in the science of computing. On the success of this, in 1936, he was granted a place in Princeton to study his PhD in mathematical logic.

Along with his team, Turing was instrumental in designing a machine that could decode the communications of Germany. By 1942, the team were decoding up to forty thousand messages a month. The government used the messages to design wat strategy and ultimately win the war. At the end of the war, Turing was made an OBE for his work.

His genius did not stop there. In 1945 he went to work for the National Physical Laboratory, where he created the first electronic computer. His design is the first to contain an example of an electronic stored program that…

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