In my mind the best example in the twentieth century would be Alan Turing.
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The life of computer pioneer Alan Turing has been commemorated in a special edition of Monopoly.
That was a good century before Alan Turing kicked off what we now call the computer age.
Alan Turing made profound breakthroughs in our understanding of artificial intelligence and an enormous contribution to the defeat of fascism.
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Campaigners fighting to get a pardon for computer pioneer Alan Turing have taken their fight to the House of Lords.
In 1950, computer scientist Alan Turing wrote that within 50 years it would become difficult to distinguish between humans and computers.
Other items on show include a copy of the 2009 government apology to Alan Turing for his treatment as a gay man.
The junction from Ashton New Road into Alan Turing Way and adjoining footpath were temporarily closed on Thursday as a safety precaution.
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Lord Sharkey's new motion is called the Alan Turing (Statutory Pardon) Bill.
The Government Code and Cipher School in Bletchley, where Alan Turing did pioneering work on early computers, is a popular site of pilgrimage.
The Bombe was developed by a team including mathematician Alan Turing, which enabled cryptographers to decode more than 3, 000 German messages in a day.
Mr Strachey, along with Alan Turing, was one of the first to write software for the Manchester Mark I - one of the first stored-program computers.
Iain Standen from the Bletchley Park Trust said the exhibition gave "long-awaited recognition to the short but brilliant life and legacy of Alan Turing, the father of computing".
Since the days of Alan Turing, the promise of a digital computer has been that of a universal machine, one that can be a word processor one minute and a robot brain the next.
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For from Newton and Darwin to Edison and Einstein, from Alan Turing to Steve Jobs, we have led the world in our commitment to science and cutting-edge research, the discovery of new medicines and technologies.
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Last year he launched a petition on the No 10 website calling on the government to make a posthumous apology to World War II code-breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing for his treatment by the authorities for being gay.
There are 36 current petitions that are now eligible for a response, on diverse subjects such as reform of MPs' pensions, the persecution of birds of prey in England, and on granting a pardon to computer pioneer Alan Turing.
This used the life of Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul of the homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.
There's also a 1936 first edition of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society where mathematician Alan Mathison Turing introduces the concept of a "universal machine, " an imaginary computing device.
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