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

Alan Turing, who was born 100 years ago on June 23, 1912, might not have invented the computer. (That honor goes to Charles Babbage and Lord Byron's daughter.) But today’s computing would be ...

Alan Mathison Turing wasn’t just the gay mathematician and computer scientist who helped defeat the Nazis during World War II by cracking their “Enigma” code — he was also a close friend to gay fellow ...

New queer musical Alan Turing & the Queen of the Night opens Off-Broadway at The Players Theatre on August 1, blending Turing ...

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A collection of scientific papers from English mathematician, codebreaker, and father of computer science, Alan Turing, has sold for £465,400 (US$625,000) at auction after narrowly avoiding being ...

A few years ago, composer Matthew Suttor was exploring Alan Turing’s archives at King’s College, Cambridge, when he happened upon a typed draft of a lecture the pioneering computer scientist and World ...

Alan Turing features on the £50 note with advanced security features which was issued by the Bank of England in 2021 (Picture: PA/Bank of England) ...

Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking. Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms.

Named for British mathematician and computer scientist Alan M. Turing, the award comes with a $1 million prize with financial support provided by Google. Wigderson, ...

Turing proved this groundbreaking result using a counterintuitive strategy: He defined a problem that simply rejects every attempt to solve it. “I ask you what you’re doing, and then I say, ‘No, I’m ...