Alan Turing Computing patriarch

摘要

Along with those who resided at 10 Downing Street, Alan Turing was among the most important Britons of the 20th century. A developer of the modem computer, the renowned mathematician helped shape the future of technology. He was also a World War II code breaker who helped crack the most impenetrable Nazi tool of secret communications, the famed Enigma code. No matter-in 1952 Turing was convicted of "gross indecency" for homosexuality, then a crime in England.