Why did computer science make a hero out of Turing?

Maarten Bullynck, Edgar G. Daylight, Liesbeth De Mol. Why did computer science make a hero out of Turing?. Communications of the ACM, 58(3):37-39, 2015. [doi]

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  title = {Why did computer science make a hero out of Turing?},
  author = {Maarten Bullynck and Edgar G. Daylight and Liesbeth De Mol},
  year = {2015},
  doi = {10.1145/2658985},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2658985},
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  journal = {Communications of the ACM},
  volume = {58},
  number = {3},
  pages = {37-39},
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