Detail of a rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The model is similar to the Mark II, on which the first recorded computer music was played. (photo by Alan ...

Alan Turing, the British mathematician who laid the theoretical groundwork for modern computing and cracked coded messages from the Nazis, received a royal pardon on Tuesday. Turing was convicted ...

HE CALLED it the “oracle”. But in his PhD thesis of 1938, Alan Turing specified no further what shape it might take. Perhaps that is fair enough: aged just 26, the British mathematician had already ...

Turing is credited as one of the founding fathers of computing. Mathematician and World War II codebreaker, Alan Turing, has been honored by the Bank of England as the new face of the 50 pound note.

Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. —Time magazine, Jan. 23, 1950 How do we tell whether a machine thinks? Much of today’s discussion of the matter starts with British computer ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a ...

Items belonging to an Englishman credited with cracking encrypted Nazi communications during World War II, and who later earned accolades as one of the founding fathers of computer science, were ...

Alan Turing, considered to be one of the fathers of computer science whose code-breaking work helped the Allies win the Second World War, has been given a royal pardon for his homosexuality conviction ...

While most new Monopoly sets desperately try to keep up with the times—swapping cash for credit cards or using circular boards—here’s one which celebrates the past. Now you can play the ...

The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence. Its creator is a robot named Ai-Da that resembles a woman with a bob haircut. By Zachary Small At a ...