I cannot forgive the stupidity of his attitude towards sane discussion on the New Testament.”. And let's don't forget what we now call The Turing Test ( A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.). ![]() He developed a test for artificial intelligence in 1950, which is still used today. Turing's work in 1952 on morphogenesis became a completely new field of mathematical biology (a mathematical explanation of how things grow). Much of this work was related to creating machines that could learn and “think”. He also dabbled in quantum mechanics, biology, chemistry and neurology after the war. Among his accomplishments: He was responsible for breaking the Nazi Enigma code during World War II, giving the Allies the edge they needed to win the war in Europe, and lead to the creation of the computer. In reality, his accomplishments were in spite of the ridicule, discrimination, and character assassination he endured through his life because of those traits. When I posted a "meme" stating that anyone who uses a computer should thank this man, the comments revealed confusion as to how his beliefs or sexual orientation were related to his accomplishments. Alan Turing, known as the father of computer science or just the father of computers, was also gay and an atheist.
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