Alan Turing: The Unheralded Father of Computing

Alan Turing: The Hero Who Changed the World

The world nowadays is changing with a high pace, and it's also the world that's based on information technology. Every day, we're using a complicated machine that simplifies our life: computers. But how many people actually knows who came up with the idea of computers? Many young people nowadays might be familiar with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, and the debate of which one of them has contributed more to the world of computers is still going on and even keep boiling. But people rarely know anything about the real designer of computers, the person labeled as the Einstein of the world of computers, Alan Turing. He is an English mathematician born in 1912, who praised as the father of computers and artificial

And his signal concept of an all-purpose, stored-program computer – the model for our digital devices today – was often attributed to others, from Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century to John von Neumann in the twentieth. (Saler 1)

Because of all these, Alan Turing was considered to be the country’s most talented young mathematician (Spartacus Educational 6), and was commented: “What he had in mind went much further than the development.” (Hodges, “Alan Turing: The Enigma” 450)

But his talents were not the only things that brought him to succeed, because, on the other hand, he couldn’t succeed if it weren’t for his creativities.

No matter how talented, creative, and courageous he was, he couldn’t succeed without his unremittingness.

All of his commendable personalities made him a hero, but his far-reaching impacts defined the truth that he is definitely a hero.

Alan Turing was definitely a hero because his talent of mathematics and computing technology, creativity of solving problems and difficulties, courage to pioneer new fields and face the hard times in his life, unremittingness to his interests and for facing failures, and far-reaching impacts that affected the life of all of