A treasure of scientific papers by codebreaking war hero Alan Turing fetched $625k at auction after being found in loft and ...

The first program-assisted chess algorithm was created by Alan Turing.Fifty years later, IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue, emerged. Russian chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov played ...

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a computer, but now it’s been coded up and who ...

In Alan Turing's 42 years of life, his discoveries and inventions saved thousands of lives and paved the way for modern computing. Despite this, it has been only recently that he has been ...

Alan Turing developed The Turing Test to determine if a computer could trick a human into thinking it is also a human. ... "We have reasonably good self- driving cars, we have chess programs, ...

A trove of forgotten papers penned by famed World War II codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for the record-setting price of $627,000. But the June 17 auction almost never happened. At one point, the ...

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 ...

Khan learned to play chess from his father, Mian Nizam Din, when he was young, and he was the best player in Punjab by the time he was 21. A wealthy landowner, Sir Umar Hayat Khan Tiwana, hired ...

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...

Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov yesterday [MON] completed a game of chess started more than 60 years ago by Alan Turing.For the first time in public, Mr Kasparov played a match against Turing’s chess ...

In 1950, Alan Turing famously created what’s now known as the Turing Test, ... We’ve now got AI that can hold conversations, draw pictures, or play expert rounds of chess, ...