Alan Turing, the 'Father of modern computing,' born on June 23, 1912, revolutionized technology with his Turing machine concept. His codebreaking during World War II significantly shortened the war.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Several Alan Turing papers, including "On Computable Numbers," are going to auction in June ...

The image, inspired by the story of Alan Turing cracking the Enigma Code during World War 2, depicts a brain gazing at an infinite space of faces. The 50 dials on the "face decoding machine ...

It now seeks 10K supporters for Expert Review A working Turing Machine was submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of approximately 2,900 parts and a bucketload of extreme cleverness.… The original ...

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. At one point, the ...

The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become ...

In June 2022, a Facebook post went viral about the life of British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing, including several claims such as a rumor about why a bite is taken out of ...

Another notable and increasingly useful variant is the probabilistic Turing machine. Unlike a regular Turing machine — which has a well-defined reaction to every input — a probabilistic Turing machine ...

Alan Turing (1912-1954), computer scientist and cryptologist instrumental in breaking Germany's 'enigma' machine code during World War II, c. 1928.

Chicago Opera Theater’s “The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing,” 7:30 p.m. March 23 and 3 p.m. March 25 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St.; tickets $25-$165 at ...

In keeping with Turing’s vision, the team has partnered with artificial intelligence on the project, using successive versions of GPT, a large language model, to help write the opera’s libretto and ...

Alan Turing, the 'Father of modern computing,' born on June 23, 1912, revolutionized technology with his Turing machine concept. His codebreaking during World War II significantly shortened the war.