UK Computer Pioneer Alan Turing Face of 50 Pound Note

London: British computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing will feature on the new design of the Bank of England’s 50 pound note, it was revealed on Monday. He is celebrated for his code-cracking work that proved vital to the Allies in World War Two, the BBC reported.

“Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today,” Bank of England Governor Mark Carney as saying. “As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as a war hero, Alan Turing’s contributions were far ranging and path breaking. Turing is a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand.” The work Turing, who was educated in Sherborne, Dorset, helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine.

The 50 pound note will be the last of the Bank of England collection to switch from paper to polymer when it enters circulation by the end of 2021, the BBC reported. The note was once described as the “currency of corrupt elites” and is the least used in daily transactions. (IANS)

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