Alan Turing: Exhibition offers rare glimpse of the man behind the enigma

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Message 2230 - Posted: 7 Mar 2012, 4:46:18 UTC

British mathematician Alan Turing is known as the father of modern computing. Decades before the onset of the information age, Turing conceived what he called a "universal machine", laying the groundwork for today's PCs and smartphones.

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