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Who is the father of computers?
Von Neumann laid the foundation of modern computer and was honored as "the father of computer" by the world. But when talking about his own theories and thoughts, he modestly said that these theories and thoughts are based on the thoughts of British mathematicians Turing and Boolean. 1847, Bourgeois published "Research on the Law of Thinking", founded logic algebra, and successfully simplified formal logic into an algebra. Boolean believes that all kinds of propositions in logic can be expressed by mathematical symbols, and appropriate conclusions corresponding to logical problems can be deduced according to rules. Boolean logic algebra theory is based on two logical values "true" and "false" and three logical relationships "AND", "OR" and "NOT". This theory paves the way for the design of binary, logic components and logic circuits of digital electronic computers. 1854, Boolean published his masterpiece Boolean Algebra, and on this basis, after years of development, Li Lou Logic, the theoretical basis of modern computers, was formed. C.E.Sharnorn, one of the founders of information theory, pointed out in a master's thesis of 1938 that the logical relations in Boolean algebra can be expressed in binary, with "1" indicating "true" and "0" indicating "false", so that the logical operation system can be constructed in binary. It is pointed out that based on Boolean algebra, any mechanical reasoning process can be as easy as ordinary calculation for electronic computers. Shannon associated Boolean algebra with computer binaries. Alan turing, regarded by von Neumann as "the father of artificial intelligence" and "the father of computer", is a genius. At the age of 22, he was elected as a researcher in imperial academy. In 1936' s paper "On Countability and Its Application in Cryptography", he strictly described the logical structure of the computer and put forward the general model of the computer-"Turing" for the first time. During World War II, Turing worked in the British Foreign Office and designed a code breaker (BOMBE), which is actually a special digital electronic computer with relays as devices. This machine cracked the enemy's password again and again, and contributed to the victory of the anti-fascist war. From 65438 to 0945, Turing began to design automatic computers at the British National Institute of Physics, and expounded the idea of using subroutines to realize some operations without programmers knowing the details of machine operation, which laid the foundation for the birth of advanced computer languages. 1950, Turing made a computer model machine "PIOLOT ACE" which embodies his design idea. In June+10 of the same year, Turing published the paper "Computing Machine and Intelligence", and designed the famous Turing test to test whether the computer has the same intelligence as human beings by asking and answering questions. This kind of thinking is still one of the core issues discussed in computer academic circles. This paper caused a great shock in the computer academic circle and laid the foundation of artificial intelligence theory. In order to commemorate Turing's great contribution to computer science, the American Computer Association has established the Turing Award, which is awarded to scientists who have made great contributions to computer science every year, and can be called the Nobel Prize in computer science.