---
title: Alan Turing
type: Person
tags: [mathematics, cryptography, computing, ai]
---
# Alan Turing
Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
## Observations
- [name] Alan Turing
- [role] Mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst
- [expertise] Mathematical logic
- [expertise] Cryptanalysis
- [expertise] Theoretical computer science
- [born] 1912
- [fact] Broke the Enigma code during World War II
- [fact] Proposed the Turing test for machine intelligence
## Relations
- works_at [[Bletchley Park]]
- works_at [[University of Manchester]]
- created [[Turing Machine]]