Alan Turing is known for his scientific achievements, but openness in his personal life caused his public downfall.

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 ...

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 ...

For as much as we know about the pioneering British computer scientist Alan Turing, we know relatively little about his death. Turing was found dead at his home in 1954, two years after he was outed ...

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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 ...

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 ...