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\centerline{\big Alan Mathison Turing (1912--1954)}

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Invented the stored-program digital computer (1936); broke WWII
German ENIGMA cypher (1941); defined modern programming concepts
(1946); designed world's first operating computer
(Manchester, June, 1948); openly and unapologetically homosexual.

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