Major achievements

• The start of the "digital revolution," which includes the current Information Age and the Internet.^[13]
• A formal definition of computation and computability, and proof that there are computationally unsolvable andintractable problems.^[14]
• The concept of a programming language, a tool for the precise expression of methodological information at various levels of abstraction.^[15]
• In cryptography, breaking the Enigma machine was an important factor contributing to the Allied victory in World War II.^[12]
• Scientific computing enabled practical evaluation of processes and situations of great complexity, as well as experimentation entirely by software. It also enabled advanced study of the mind, and mapping of the human genome became possible with the Human Genome Project.^[13] Distributed computing projects such asFolding@home explore protein folding