A handwritten notebook by Alan Turing, the World War II code-breaking genius depicted by Benedict Cumberbatch in the Oscar-nominated The Imitation Game, is going on the auction block. The 56-page ...

A new exhibition celebrating the life and works of modern computing pioneer has opened at the Science Museum in London to mark his 100th birthday. Bringing together the most extensive collection of ...

Precious scientific papers once belonging to wartime codebreaking genius Alan Turing – rescued from an attic clear-out where they faced destruction – are set to fetch a fortune at auction next month.… ...

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 ...

More than six decades after his death, Alan Turing’s life remains a point of fascination—even for people who have no interest in his groundbreaking work in computer science. He has been the subject of ...

During the second world war, Alan Turing was recruited by the Allies to crack the coded messages used by the Nazis. At first they seemed near-impossible to decipher, but using a combination of ...

Codebreaking Second World War veterans smiled as they reunited at the scene of their wartime service in Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes. British codebreakers, including Alan Turing, were based at ...

Experts, gathered at a Turing centenary conference in Cambridge, give their views on what his greatest intellectual contributions are Did Alan Turing's death come as a shock to the Britain of 1954? To ...

The Queen today hailed Britain's Second World War codebreakers whose vital work remained unknown for decades. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh met veterans and unveiled a monument at Bletchley Park ...

Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrait of a halting, frustrated, brilliant Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, 2014 has beamed the Cambridge mathematician’s unique contributions to modern digital computing ...

Alan Turing, the 'Father of modern computing,' born on June 23, 1912, revolutionized technology with his Turing machine concept. His codebreaking during World War II significantly shortened the war.