UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 18: Ferranti, a weapons and electronics company, was commissioned by the British government to manufacture this computer. It was based on a prototype known as the Manchester Mark ...

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 ...

Central Square Theater passes its own Turing test with U.S. premier of an updated production about the master mathematician.

DENVER — Historical items belonging to British computer scientist and mathemetician Alan Turing have been returned to England after a Conifer woman was accused of taking them, the U.S. Attorney's ...

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 ...

Alan Turing wasn’t just some random name from your high school math textbook. The British mathematician, codebreaker, and computing pioneer didn’t just help crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during ...

It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.