A trove of forgotten papers penned by famed World War II codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for the record-setting price of ...

IN 1935, Alan Turing set out to build a reputation by outflanking the world’s leading mathematician. Turing was 22 years old, and a new fellow at Cambridge. His target, David Hilbert, was the ...

The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become kno… ...

Simple Turing machine shown capable ... Stephen Wolfram put forth the challenge to amateur and professional mathematicians alike to determine if one of the Turing machines listed in his book, ...

A treasure of scientific papers by codebreaking war hero Alan Turing fetched $625k at auction after being found in loft and ...

Alan Turing is credited as being the first to dream up the concept of a computer and how it might work. This was in the 1930s. His ideas form the basis of the machines that we rely upon today. He ...

His concept of the Turing machine led to the development of digital computers. "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?'" he wrote in a paper in 1950.

They were then tasked with putting the machine together with “unreliable war surplus parts. ... Also involved for a short period was Englishman Alan Turing, the book’s namesake. This, ...

Alan Turing Turns 100 Alan Turing was the father of modern computing, helped the allies win World War II, and was gay — which led to his arrest, and chemical castration. David Leavitt, author of ...