Major achievements

German military used the Enigma machine during World War II for communication they thought to be secret. The large-scale decryption of Enigma traffic at Bletchley Park was an important factor that contributed to Allied victory in WWII.[11Despite its relatively short history as a formal academic discipline, computer science has made a number of fundamental contributions to science and society. These include:

* Started the Digital Revolution, which led to the current Information Age and the Internet.[12]
* A formal definition of computation and computability, and proof that there are computationally unsolvable and intractable problems.[13]
* The concept of a programming language, a tool for the precise expression of methodological information at various levels of abstraction.[14]
* In cryptography, breaking the Enigma machine was an important factor contributing to the Allied victory in World War II.[11]
* Scientific computing enabled advanced study of the mind, and mapping the human genome became possible with Human Genome Project.[12] Distributed computing projects such as Folding@home explore protein folding.
* Algorithmic trading has increased the efficiency and liquidity of financial markets by using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other statistical and numerical techniques on a large scale.[15]