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Alan Turing at 100

post from Top stories on 14 September 2012 10:00:45 AM. © Top stories

Exhibit celebrates pivotal pioneer of computer, artificial intelligence.

It is hard to overstate the importance of Alan Turing, the British mathematician who died in 1954. He was a hero in science, for one. Turing invented the concepts that underlie modern computers and artificial intelligence. And he was a hero in war: He was a vital part of the British cryptographic team at Bletchley Park that cracked the German Enigma code during World War II.