David Leavitt, acclaimed gay novelist, essayist, biographer and short story writer, discusses his book The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer, recorded in the KPFA ...

Alan Turing is widely considered the father of computer science for his work on the theory of computers, which he developed in the 1930s, and his invention of the Turing machine, a model of ...

A trove of forgotten papers penned by famed World War II codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for the record-setting price of $627,000. But the June 17 auction almost never happened.

An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at ...

The story of Alan Turing, father of modern computing. His journey as a young man and how he achieved what was thought at the time impossible, the decryption of the most complex German enigma machine.

Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms.

The world-famous mathematician Alan Turing found a possible mechanism for iconic animal patterns thanks to differential equations ...

Alan Turing: A Musical Biography is a journey through the extraordinary life of Alan Turing. Alan was a genius whose brilliant code breaking brain saved approximately fourteen million lives in WW2.

The Turing Test is a concept introduced by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in his seminal 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." ...

In 1950, the mathematician Alan Turing published a paper about whether computers could think. He proposed a thought experiment, a version of a parlor game in which notes are passed back and forth ...

Alan Turing Masterpieces "Almost Shredded" By Owners Fetch $625,000 At Auction “Nothing could’ve prepared me for what I was about to find in that carrier bag.” ...