COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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In (1912-1954) this person invented Colossus, the worlds first electronic computer . He used it to crack German codes during World War Two and saved thousands of lives. Who was he?
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Steve Jobs
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Alan Turing
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Charles Babbage
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
Detailed explanation-2: -In a paper on mathematical logic in 1936, Alan Turing, an English mathematician, proposed the construct of a very simple machine whose programs did not distinguish between data and instructions.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the Colossi, known as Colossus Blue, was dismantled in 1959; the other in 1960. There had been attempts to adapt them to other purposes, with varying success; in their later years they had been used for training.
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