Alan Turing

Alan Turing was a British mathematician, who was very influential in the development of computer science. In my opinion without Alan Turing the creation of the computer would have been almost impossible. He provided the building blocks necessary to make the computer so successful. He developed the formation of the concepts of algorithms and computation in his Turing machine. The Turing machine was a model of the general purpose computer. Turing is also known as the Father of computer science. Lets face it without Alan Turing's making of the concepts of the algorithm and computation, it would have been many years before we started making computers. He had a huge influence on the way that the computers were made and how they worked. Alan Turing was gay, and unfortunately people didn't understand that being gay wasn't a disease or a psychological illness, and was prosecuted for homosexuality in 1952. He accepted oestrogen injections instead of prison and because of that is ruined his emotional stability. He later committed suicide. I only people knew back then what they know now, it would have changed a lot of peoples lives, and saved a lot of brilliant minds.