[jivatmanx]

Creator of the first Turing-complete computer, Charles Babbage did a little philosophy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#Other_accomplis...

"Babbage was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1832.[35] In 1837, responding to the Bridgewater Treatises, of which there were eight, he published his Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation, putting forward the thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight to create as a divine legislator, making laws (or programs) which then produced species at the appropriate times, rather than continually interfering with ad hoc miracles each time a new species was required. The book is a work of natural theology, and incorporates extracts from correspondence he had been having with John Herschel on the subject."

[wfn]

On that note, Alan Turing's SEP entry is also worth a mention: it's a nice intro to his profoundly influential (CS + cognitive sciences + philosophy of mind) ideas as well as a (very interesting) short bio on him.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/