A handwritten notebook by Alan Turing, the World War II code-breaking genius depicted by Benedict Cumberbatch in the Oscar-nominated The Imitation Game, is going on the auction block. The 56-page ...
During the second world war, Alan Turing was recruited by the Allies to crack the coded messages used by the Nazis. At first they seemed near-impossible to decipher, but using a combination of ...
On June 23, we commemorate the birth of Alan Mathison Turing, a visionary whose profound contributions laid the very groundwork for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Often hailed as the ...
The Queen today hailed Britain's Second World War codebreakers whose vital work remained unknown for decades. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh met veterans and unveiled a monument at Bletchley Park ...
A series of celebratory events is taking place this week to mark the centenary of computer pioneer Alan Turing's birth. To mark the occasion the BBC has commissioned seven articles to explore his ...
Alan Turing - the Bletchley Park codebreaker - would have been 100 years old on 23 June had he lived to the present day. To mark the occasion the BBC commissioned a week-long series of articles to ...
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of ...
Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrait of a halting, frustrated, brilliant Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, 2014 has beamed the Cambridge mathematician’s unique contributions to modern digital computing ...
Eerie codebreaking game TR-49, by renowned British studio Inkle, enjoyed surprising success on PC earlier this year. Now, ...
Gordon Brown issued an unequivocal apology last night on behalf of the government to Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life 55 years ago after being sentenced to chemical ...