Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trove of Alan Turing's papers, including his own personal copy of his PhD dissertation, is going up for auction June 17 after ...

Two people can watch the exact same machine respond to a question and reach completely different conclusions about what just ...

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 ...

Alan Turing is a towering figure in the history of computer science. The British mathematician's work in the early- to mid-20th century established a foundation for digital computer processing and ...

We want speaking machines because language is the best way to rapidly communicate ideas. Users want their lives made easier and Hollywood wants their 1960s predictions proven right. But computers ...

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A startling new study of a little-known, unpublished short story by Alan Turing challenges our understanding of the man who ...

Alan Turing, a British mathematical genius, was born in Paddington, London on June 23, 1912. His father was a civil servant stationed in India and his mother left him in England to be with his father ...

Writing from year after gross indecency arrest challenges ‘isolated mathematician’ image, says Cambridge academic ...

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...