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

In his book Turing’s Vision, Chris Bernhardt deftly shows how Turing dashed one of Hilbert’s great ambitions with a masterful proof – in the course of which he inadvertently invented 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 ...

A small subset of these Turing machines are known as Universal Turing machines; they are capable of solving any computational problem known.

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 so-called Turing machine concept became the basis of the digital computer. Now the public is getting a glimpse of his mathematical brilliance at work.

George Dyson's fascinating and frustrating Turing's Cathedral is loosely tethered to a particular time and place, but Dyson gives himself enough rope to bounce from one peripherally related ...

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 The Man Who Knew Too ...