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Photo
Alan Turing (1951)
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Elliott & Fry
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Public domain
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Photo credit

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Alan Turing (1912-1954) in 1936 at Princeton University (cropped)
Licence
Public domain
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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图灵

圖靈
Túlíng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Alan Turing (father of computer science)

About Alan Turing

1912–1954 · 科学家 scientist

English mathematician who described the Turing machine, the model behind every computer, and helped break German Enigma codes in WWII. He proposed the 图灵测试 (Turing test), and computing's top prize bears his name.

Also called  艾伦·图灵

Examples

HSK 5
图灵对计算机科学的贡献是巨大的。
Túlíng duì jìsuànjī kēxué de gòngxiàn shì jùdà de.
Turing's contribution to computer science is immense.

Tips

culture
The 图灵奖 is nicknamed the Nobel Prize of computing. Its only ethnic Chinese winner so far is 姚期智 (Andrew Yao, 2000), who in 2005 founded Tsinghua University's small, selective computer science class known as the 姚班 'Yao Class'.

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