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Alan Turing is best known for which achievement?
- aDeveloping radar, to warn of air attacks on the south coast
- bDescribing a theoretical machine that laid the foundations of modern computersCorrect answer
- cInventing the hovercraft, a vehicle for crossing water on a cushion of air
- dBuilding the first jet engine to power an aeroplane in flight
Why?
In the 1930s the mathematician Alan Turing described the 'Turing machine', an idea at the heart of modern computing. In the Second World War he also helped to break German codes.
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