Alan Turing was instrumental in breaking Nazi Germany’s Enigma code, an achievement that shortened World War II and saved millions of lives. His work remained classified for decades, leaving him ...

English computer scientist Alan Turing is most known for a thought experiment first devised in 1950 —- can a computer pass as a human?

(CNN) — An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at ...

Turing is credited as one of the founding fathers of computing. Mathematician and World War II codebreaker, Alan Turing, has been honored by the Bank of England as the new face of the 50 pound note.

The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan Turing]’s efforts with ...

Discover how a letter from the Council for Science and Technology led to the setting up of the Alan Turing Institute, helping Britain become a world ...

The documentary Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing examines Turing and other gay men convicted under the U.K.’s 1885 anti-homosexuality law. It opens for a one-week run in NYC on Dec ...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized to Alan Turing on Sept. 11 after 31,564 people signed a petition on Brown's Web site asking him to do so. Turing – the openly gay founder of modern ...

ALAN TURING & THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT is a concert performance that explores the life of Alan Turing, a pioneering figure in computing and a gay hero. Set in a queer fantasy realm, the show weaves ...

Malcolm Holmes will make his Off-Broadway debut in the title role of Professor Alan Turing. Soprano Sara Lucille Law will star as Mrs. Morcom, the Queen of the Night. Billed as a queer fantasy, ALAN ...

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 ...