Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a Ferranti computer in January 1951. Turing had previously been involved with the construction of both the Colossus, the electronic computer built at ...

To win the Second World War, the Allies urgently needed to crack the complex codes used by the Axis powers. Fortunately, they had Alan Turing on their side. In a breathtakingly elegant paper, Turing ...

Britain’s codebreaking operation has been dominated by a male narrative – a star-studded cast of 20th-century brain boxes, led by mathematician Alan Turing. His outstanding ... designed the even more ...

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

A study by scientists at UC San Diego found that OpenAI’s large language model GPT-4.5 passed for human 73 percent of the ...

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

A collection of rare project writings by Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has been saved for the nation after an export bar was placed on them to prevent them being taken abroad.

A collection of rare project writings by Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has been saved for the nation after an export bar was placed on them to prevent them being taken abroad. The wartime ...

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

Rare notebooks of Alan Turing’s unpublished code-breaking work during the Second World War have been saved for the nation thanks to a charity campaign. The handwritten notes document Turing’s ...

Even in 1950, at the dawn of the computing age, famous British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing knew that machines would one day rival the conversational abilities of humans.