Turing, known as the father of computer science, is also an excellent cryptographer. 193 1 year, Turing entered King's College, Cambridge University, and went to Princeton University to study for a doctorate after graduation. After the outbreak of World War II, he returned to Cambridge to help the Allies crack the famous German Nazi code Enigma, which laid a solid foundation for the Allies' victory in World War II.

2. The spiritual leader of free software: Richard Storman.

He is the founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation. As a famous hacker, his major achievements include Emacs and later GNU Emacs, GNU C compiler and GDB debugger. The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) written by him is the most widely used free software license in the world, which opens up a brand-new road for the concept of copyleft.

His greatest influence was to establish a moral, political and legal framework for the free software movement. He is praised by many as a fighter of free software and a great idealist, but at the same time, some people criticize him for being too stubborn and outdated.

3. Wang An: the inventor of computer magnetic recording.

Dr. Wang An, a Chinese American, was born in Shanghai, 1920. After studying electrical engineering at Jiaotong University, he was selected by the government to go to Harvard University in the United States for further study and obtained a doctorate in applied physics. At the age of 28, he invented magnetic recording /CoreMemory, which was the first in the field of computer mass storage. Created a word processing system (WPS) and produced the first Chinese computer. At the 0/00th anniversary ceremony of the Statue of Liberty/KLOC-in the United States, Wang An was selected as one of the most outstanding immigrants in the United States. 1988, the American Inventor Memorial Hall also listed Wang An as the 69th great inventor after Edison and others.

4. Grace Hopper, the mother of computer language

Grace Hopper 1906 was born in a middle-class family in New York, USA. 1952, she developed the world's first compiler A-O ahead of schedule, 1959, and a working committee led by her successfully developed the first commercial programming language COBOL.

197 1 year, in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the birth of modern digital computers, the American Computer Society specially established the Grace Hopper Prize, which was awarded to the best young computer workers under the age of 30. Therefore, the "Hope Award" is a symbol of young heroes in the global computer field.

5. Von Neumann, the father of electronic computer.

Johanvnneumann (1903-1957), a Hungarian-born American scholar, is known as the father of electronic computers. 1June, 1945, von Neumann and goldstein jointly published 10 1 page report, which is the famous "10 1 page report" in computer history, laying a solid foundation for modern computer architecture. Von Neumann ingeniously came up with the method of "storing programs", and clearly pointed out that computers must adopt the binary number system, which pointed out the direction for the development of modern computers.