Autistic People Can Solve Our Cybersecurity Crisis

Alan Turing was the mastermind whose role in cracking the Nazi Enigma code helped the Allies win World War II. He built a machine to do the calculations necessary to decipher enemy messages and today is hailed as the father of the com puter and artificial intelligence. He's also widely believed to have been autistic. Kevin Pelphrey (@KevinPelphrey) is Carbonell Family Professor and director of the Autism and Neurodevel opmental Disorders Institute at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Turing was not diagnosed in his lifetime, but his mathematical genius and social inelegance fit the profile for autism spectrum disorder (ASD).