The Price of Genius: The Alan Turing Story

Alan Turing, the intellectual father of the modern computer, had a theory. He believed that one day machines would become so powerful that they would think just like humans.The flesh-and-blood complexities of Alan Turing's life, as well as the very human emotions that drove him, serve as a testament that the distinction between man and machine may be deeper than he surmised.

This TIME Spotlight Story explores The Price of Genius: The Alan Turing Story.