Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a ...

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Several Alan Turing papers, ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.

Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of ...

A few years ago, composer Matthew Suttor was exploring Alan Turing’s archives at King’s College, Cambridge, when he happened upon a typed draft of a lecture the pioneering computer scientist and World ...

On 8 June 1954, Turing’s cleaner found him dead. He had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the ...