Alan Turing Crash Course Computer Science 15

Today we re going to take a step back from programming and discuss the person who formulated many of the theoretical concepts that underlie modern computation - the father of computer science himself Alan Turing Now normally we try to avoid Great Man history in Crash Course because truthfully all milestones in humanity are much more complex than just an individual or through a single lens - but for Turing we are going to make an exception From his theoretical Turing Machine and work on the Bombe to break Nazi Enigma codes during World War II to his contributions in the field of Artificial Intelligence before it was even called that Alan Turing helped inspire the first generation of computer scientists - despite a life tragically cut short Special thanks to Contributing Writer Robert Xiao whom we should have and forgot to include in the credits His help with this episode was invaluable Ps Have you had the chance to play the Grace Hopper game we made in episode 12 Check it out here a http 3A 2F 2Fthoughtcafe ca 2Fhopper 2F a Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios a http 3A 2F 2Fyoutube com 2Fpbsdigitalstudios a Want to know more about Carrie Anne a https 3A 2F 2Fabout me 2Fcarrieannephilbin a The Latest from PBS Digital Studios a https 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fplaylist 3Flist 3DPL1mtdjDVOoOqJzeaJAV15Tq0tZ1vKj7ZV a Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet Facebook - a https 3A 2F 2Fwww facebook com 2FYouTubeCrash a Twitter - a http 3A 2F 2Fwww twitter com 2FTheCrashCourse a Tumblr - a http 3A 2F 2Fthecrashcourse tumblr com a Support Crash Course on Patreon a http 3A 2F 2Fpatreon com 2Fcrashcourse a CC Kids a http 3A 2F 2Fwww youtube com 2Fcrashcoursekids a

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