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.
Alan Turing's Universal Machine is named greatest British innovation of the 20th Century. 1  The 'universal machine' is the theoretical basis for all modern computers. 2  Alan Turing created the theory in a paper 'on computable numbers' in 1936. 3  After WWII, Turing made the first designs for a stored-program computer.roundbreaking: Alan Turing also invented the code breaking naval Enigma machine, pictured, which cracked the Nazis' coding machine and stripped U-boats blockading Britain of their cover. Turing's invention was one of 100 to be shortlisted for the national vote.