NEW YORK (Reuters) - A notebook about mathematics and computer science written by Nazi-code breaker Alan Turing, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the Oscar-nominated film "The Imitation Game," ...
War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.
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 ...
Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...
The mechanism known as the Bombe was England’s answer to Germany’s Enigma encryption machine. Bombe electrical data plus human clues allowed Alan Turing and others to crack many Enigma messages. In ...
Another rare example of Alan Turing's handwritten notes, which went to auction in 2015 Dickson Lee / South China Morning Post via Getty Images The British government has placed an export ban on a ...
Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...
The story of breaking the unbreakable German Enigma Code by Alan Turing during WWII. Narrated by Keith Morrison of "Dateline," the breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the ...