The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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About Alan Turing
Alan Turing was a 20th-century English computer scientist. Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general-purpose computer. Read more on Wikipedia →