3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British mathematician who invented theoretical computer science (the Turing machine, 1936), broke the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during WWII, and proposed the Turing Test for machine intelligence (1950) — before being prosecuted for homosexuality and dying in 1954.
American mathematician and NSA cryptographer who co-developed the Baum-Welch algorithm for hidden Markov models, then applied that statistical machinery to financial markets at Renaissance Technologies.
The pseudonymous person or group who published the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008 and launched the Bitcoin network in 2009 — before disappearing in 2011 — creating the first decentralized cryptocurrency and triggering the entire blockchain and crypto industry.