'''Alan Turing''' (1912 - 1954) was a British mathematician who contributed to modern [[computer]] science and [[cryptography]].<ref>Http://www.turing.org.uk/bio</ref>
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'''Alan Turing''' (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British mathematician who contributed hugely to modern [[computer]] science and [[cryptography]].<ref>Http://www.turing.org.uk/bio</ref> Though perhaps not the father of computer science, he ''" is frequently credited for being the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence."''<ref>[http://books.google.de/books?id=r5kOgS1IB-8C&pg=PA35&hl=de#v=onepage&q&f=false Steven Homer, Alan L. Selman: ''Computability and Complexity Theory''], p. 35</ref>