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1. A. M. Touring award is considered as the Nobel Prize in the field of computers, given annually by Association for Computing Machinery co-sponsored by Intel and Google. Who was A M Touring?
(a) First Chairman of Intel
(b) First Chairman of Google
(c) A British Mathematician
(d) The legendary Dean of Stanford who revolutionized the computer education in the US
Did you know
1. Alan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
2. Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
3. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer
4. Turing's homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when homosexual acts were still illegal in the United Kingdom. He accepted treatment with female hormones (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison. Turing died in 1954, at the age of 42, from cyanide poisoning.
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