Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...
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 ...
In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a ...
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 ...
A few years ago, composer Matthew Suttor was exploring Alan Turing’s archives at King’s College, Cambridge, when he happened upon a typed draft of a lecture the pioneering computer scientist and World ...
David Leavitt, acclaimed gay novelist, essayist, biographer and short story writer, discusses his book The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer, recorded in the KPFA ...
We want speaking machines because language is the best way to rapidly communicate ideas. Users want their lives made easier and Hollywood wants their 1960s predictions proven right. But computers ...
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 ...