Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a ...

Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. The prize, which is given annually by the Association ...

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Considered the father of computer science, Alan Turing was instrumental in breaking German naval ciphers coded by the Enigma machine, enabling critical Allied victories during World War II. After the ...

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A trove of Alan Turing's papers, including his own personal copy of his PhD dissertation, is going up for auction June 17 after narrowly avoiding destruction. The papers were "offprints," or copies of ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 56-page handwritten notebook that belonged to World War Two Nazi code breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the film "The Imitation ...