[Mojave]

Just what device did Turing actually INVENT? Oh that's right NOTHING. Just a piece of paper with some questions on it...

It also contained some bogus predictions, such as Turing's claim that computers would be generally accepted as thinking by around the year 2000.

[TomOnTheRun]

Just what device did Turing actually INVENT? Oh that's right NOTHING. Just a piece of paper with some questions on it...

Turing replaced Godel's universal arithmetic-based formal language with what are now called Turing machines. He proved that some such machine would be capable of performing any conceivable mathematical problem if it were representable as an algorithm. Without those ideas nobody would have been able to build the modern computers that we currently use. Did he build it with his own hands - no. Did he make it possible to build them - yes.

It also contained some bogus predictions, such as Turing's claim that computers would be generally accepted as thinking by around the year 2000

Predictions for 50 years out shouldn't be the judge of genius.

[Nathan Zachary]

The point is, functioning digital computers were already in development BEFORE this guy wrote anything, so the claim that he is any sort of "father of computer science" is bogus.

It obviously took years before the ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, constructed in the US in 1943 was completed, which is also known to be the driving force of computing hardware development and one of such use of computers was in communications encryption and decryption.

Charles Babbage 1837 Analytical Engine also used "stored" programs, so he was actually the "father of computer science".

[Nathan Zachary]

In fact, one of the first jobs I ever had was working on a “mechanical computer” of sorts, a mail sorting machine built in 1901, and still in use today sorts parcels and delivers them to a location through a means of stored information on a electro-mechanical memory board.