A trove of forgotten papers penned by famed World War II codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for the record-setting price of ...

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

The father of computer science himself: Alan Turing. Today we’re going to take a step back from programming and discuss the person who formulated many of the theoretical concepts that underlie ...

It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the European part of World War ...

Turing's 1952 paper on morphogenesis hides a small, sad, slightly eerie reminder of a life cut short: an allusion to a paper yet to come, explaining the arrangement of petals, leaves, and stems on ...

By one estimate, his work there may have cut the war short by up to two years. ... In 2012, Monopoly came out with an Alan Turing edition to celebrate the centennial of his birth.

Alan Turing (1912-1954), ... It was in this paper that he laid out the thought experiment for the test, but which he called, "The Imitation Game," based on a party game with the same name.

Alan Turing would have turned 100 this week, an event that would have, no doubt, been greeted with all manner of pomp -- the centennial of a man whose mid-century concepts would set the stage for ...

Alan Turing was an icon for outsider kids, ... So now we cut ahead a few decades. ... It turned out that they’d just acquired the rights to Turing’s story, ...

Alan Turing chose the punishment of the feminising hormones, became sexually impotent, and grew breasts. He was labeled a security risk, and no longer had access to the people and projects he loved.

During this Memorial Day celebration, somewhere between barbecuing and beach time, give a thought to Alan Mathison Turing. You know him best as the inventor of the Turing Machine--the conceptual ...