Abigail Adams Biography. Abigail Smith (Adams) was born on November 11, 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She was the second child born to Elizabeth Quincy Smith and the Reverend William Smith. Her father was Pastor of Weymouth's North Parish Congregational Church and one of the best educated and most prosperous citizens of the community.
13. Alan Turing, one of the pioneers of (theoretical) computer science, made many seminal scientific contributions to our field, including defining Turing machines, the Church-Turing thesis, undecidability, and the Turing test. However, his important discoveries are not limited to the ones I listed.
The Imitation Game: inventing a new slander to insult Alan Turing. Mathematician Alan Turing played a key role in the allied victory in the second world war, by cracking the encoded messages produced by German Enigma machines. Childhood. Alan Turing as a 16-year-old at Sherborne School, Dorset, in 1928. Photograph: Sherborne School/AFP/Getty Images. The Imitation Game jumps around three time periods â Turingâs schooldays in 1928, his cryptographic work at Bletchley Park from 1939-45, and his arrest for gross indecency in Manchester in 1952.