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

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

Billed as a queer fantasy, ALAN TURING & THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT is an original pop musical inspired by the life of Alan Turing—genius, gay hero, and inventor of the computer. The show draws from The ...

[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It was ...

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War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a ...

On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born. But ...

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2013, Queen Elizabeth II issued a royal pardon to British mathematician Alan Turing. Turing is best known for his development of the Bombe, a machine that successfully ...

The popular Facebook post got most of the facts right. However, there's no evidence that Turing inspired the design of the Apple computer company's logo. Also, Turing's death in 1954 deserves further ...

The Bank of England began circulating its new £50 bank notes featuring World War II codebreaker Alan Turing on Wednesday, which would have been the pioneering math genius’ 109th birthday. Limited time ...

Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain’s new £50 note. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney ...