[Alan Turing]’s efforts with Colossus were top secret for years, and while that work built on earlier efforts in Poland, [Turing] has as much claim to be the father of computers as anyone.

Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a Ferranti computer in January 1951. Turing had previously been involved with the construction of both the Colossus, the electronic computer built at ...

In the 1930s and 1940s an another UK mathematician and logician, Alan Turing ... code-breaking machine, 'Colossus'. At this time there was little or no notion that computers could or would ...

The University of Manchester will this year host the biggest event in the history of Computer Science to celebrate the centenary of Alan Turing, the father of the modern computer. Leading speakers ...