Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

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

Alan Turing, a British mathematical genius, was born in Paddington, London on June 23, 1912. His father was a civil servant stationed in India and his mother left him in England to be with his father ...

On 8 June 1954, Turing’s cleaner found him dead. He had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the ...

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 ...

Though as with so many independent inventors the origins of computing can be said to have been arrived at through the work of many people, Alan Turing is certainly one of the foundational figures in ...

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 ...