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Alan Turing
British mathematician Alan Turing, c. 1930s. Turing did the earliest work on AI, and he introduced many of the central concepts of AI in a report entitled “Intelligent Machinery” (1948).
Alan Turing made significant contributions to mathematical biology, particularly in the area of morphogenesis. In 1952, he published a paper titled "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis," in which he proposed a hypothetical chemical mechanism for how patterns and structures develop in living organisms. He used a computer to model this mechanism, exploring how anatomical structures in animals and plants might form. This work laid foundational concepts for the field of artificial life.1