In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, the Allied forces facing Germany had a problem. While it was easy to intercept German wireless communications, their content was difficult to decipher as ...

Detail of a rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The model is similar to the Mark II, on which the first recorded computer music was played. (photo by Alan ...

A blue plaque on the wall of a former Maida Vale nursing home marks the birthplace of a legendary Second World War Two codebreaker and computing pioneer. Alan Turing was born to Ethel Sara Turing at ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a ...

Turing helped to crack the Enigma code in the Second World War as well as pioneer computer science and artificial intelligence. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with ...

While most new Monopoly sets desperately try to keep up with the times—swapping cash for credit cards or using circular boards—here’s one which celebrates the ...

This is a guest post by Chris Owen who works at Octopus Communications and is a passionate supporter of the Bletchley Park Trust. He can be found tweeting from <a ...

Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. —Time magazine, Jan. 23, 1950 How do we tell whether a machine thinks? Much of today’s discussion of the matter starts with British computer ...

A simple, decades-old mathematical model developed by Alan Turing can predict how subtle colour patterns will develop in a lizard’s scaly skin. Over seventy years ago, the computer scientist Alan ...