Alan Turing: Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Folly – Now. Powered by Northrop Grumman

At the height of World War II, as Allied ocean convoys and Nazi German U-boats played a deadly battle of hide and seek in what we now call the Battle of the Atlantic, another invisible battle was also being fought. According to Britain's Imperial War Museum, it was a battle of information, pitting the German military's encryption technology, called Enigma, against a team of Allied codebreakers working from a top-secret British site called Bletchley Park. The leading British combatant in this maximum-stakes battle of wits was mathematician Alan Turing. Born in 1912, he was still in his twenties when the war broke out in 1939, but he was already a leading figure in the emerging field of cybernetics. Several years earlier, in 1936, he outlined the principles of computer technology in a paper describing what is still called a Turing machine -- a device capable of solving any computable mathematical function.