How Alan Turing Invented The Computer Age - AI Summary

In 1936, whilst studying for his Ph.D. at Princeton University, the English mathematician Alan Turing published a paper, "On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem," which became the foundation of computer science. Turing demonstrated you could construct a single Universal Machine that could simulate any Turing Machine. Turing designed an electromechanical machine, called the Bombe, that searched through the permutations, and by the end of the war the British were able to read all daily German Naval Enigma traffic. He devised the Turing Test: A judge sitting at a computer terminal types questions to two entities, one a person and the other a computer. If the judge is wrong the computer has passed the Turing Test and is intelligent.