Chess Computers: The first chess-playing computer program was developed in 1951 by Alan Turing, the father of computer science. Since then, computers have become formidable opponents, even ...

In the 1940s, the pioneering British computer scientist Alan Turing suggested that machines could learn in much the same way.

When Alan Turing was born, nearly a hundred years later, technology had moved on but there were still no computers. At school, Alan spent a lot of time playing chess and reading about science.