Decisions made by Alan Turing, the father of computer science, that changed the world.
The British government asked Alan to help crack the German Enigma code, but he decided to do something more interesting. He created a game where a human and a machine play a game of chess, and the machine was actually a computer program. Learn more
Alan decided to build a computer that could think, and not just play games. He called it the Automatic Computing Machine. Read the specs
Alan realized that computers weren't just for war and codebreaking. He founded the Computer Science Establishment, a think tank for computer science. Meet the team