At the laboratory, Turing designed the first relatively complete electronic stored-program digital computer for code breaking in 1945. Darwin deemed it too ambitious, however, and after several years Turing left in disgust. When the laboratory finally built his design in 1950, it was the fastest computer in the world and, astonishingly, had the memory capacity of an early Macintosh built three decades later. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
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Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician and professor at the University of Manchester, who helped break the German Enigma Code. In 1950, he discovered a new method to decrypt the messages. His method was so revolutionary that his boss dismissed him after realizing that it would be impossible to implement. However, in 1951, Turing and Maurice Wilkes built the first Turing machine and broke the German Army’s Enigma Codes.

Source: The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes Rule Cracked The Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, And Emerged Triumphant From Two Centuries Of Controversy

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