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 ...

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 ...

Experts, gathered at a Turing centenary conference in Cambridge, give their views on what his greatest intellectual contributions are Did Alan Turing's death come as a shock to the Britain of 1954? To ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alan Turing: The man who broke German codes in World War II but was later treated as a criminal (Alan Turing, Image credit - National Portrait Gallery, London ) War rarely turns on one person alone, ...

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 ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. I sadly never had the opportunity to meet my uncle, Alan Turing. We share some very basic ...

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 ...