MHB Remembering Alan Turing: A Pioneering Computer Scientist

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That article does rather down-grade AMT's contribution to computer science, designing, building and programming the first generation of computers was one of his major activities in the post-war period.

Just to prove a slightly different point; that you can do computer science without a computer, see this >>this<< on Turings Chess program.

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