Alan Turing is the father of computer science and he significantly advanced the field of artificial intelligence, a phrase that hadn’t even been coined until after his death. In a time when the first general purpose computers had just been built, Turing was already asking the question ‘can computers think’? It was that question that resulted in the Turing Test, which dictates that a computer can only be truly intelligent, or said to ‘think’, if a human interrogator can not tell it apart, through conversation, from a human being. The Turing test is still considered a benchmark for charting the progression of A.I, although some question whether or not it’s still relevant because no computer is has been able to score a passing mark.
Among his many achievements, the most celebrated ones are breaking the German Navy, Airforce and Army Enigma codes and handed the allies an advantage in the second world war.

One of the best actors of our time Benedict Cumberbatch portrays Alan Turing in the Movie “The Imitation Game”. The movie is a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British establishment, but his work and legacy live on.