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.
B. Jack Copeland is the Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, and author of Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, Alan Turingâs Electronic Brain, and Colossus. He is the editor of The Essential Turing. Read the new revelations about Turingâs death after Copelandâs investigation into the inquest. Visit the Turing hub on the Oxford University Press UK website for the latest news in the Centenary year (2012) .