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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What’s the second one?

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago

Alan Turing

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Head of the code breakers at Bletchley Park. Cracked the enigma code. He was gay

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

invented the computer and provided significant contributions to ending WWII in the allied nations favour

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

He did not invent the modern computer but contributed significantly to the modern theory of computation. There is no single person who invented the computer, it was a collective effort over decades, if not centuries, ref. Leibniz, Lovelace, Bool, von Neumann, Weizenbaum, and many more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He did invent the modern computer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

He invented the Turing machine, the modern computer was developed through the combined effort of lots of brilliant minds.