Mathematician Alan Turing's theoretical basis for all modern computers known as the 'universal machine' has been voted the greatest British innovation of the past century in a new poll. The famous ...

It is fitting that the greatest code-breaker of World War Two remains a riddle a hundred years after his birth. Alan Turing, the brilliant, maverick mathematician, widely considered to be the father ...

It is fitting that the greatest code-breaker of World War Two remains a riddle a hundred years after his birth. Alan Turing, the brilliant, maverick mathematician, widely considered to be the father ...

The real life story of mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing has been adapted for the screen in new movie The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. To coincide with the film's UK release ...

During World War 2, Nazi Germany developed the Enigma Machine, which was a cipher device that could encode "unbreakable" messages. While the original code was solved by a Polish mathematician in the ...

Alan Turing is being honored with a Google doodle this weekend on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the pioneering British computer scientist and father of artificial intelligence.

The home of computer pioneer Alan Turing is up for sale and it could be yours for a cool £1.1m. Copper Folly on Adlington Road, Wilmslow - home of Turing, the brilliant mathematician and Nazi ...

Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrait of a halting, frustrated, brilliant Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, 2014 has beamed the Cambridge mathematician’s unique contributions to modern digital computing ...

Tributes have been paid to a female code breaker who helped Alan Turing reveal the Nazi war machine's encrypted secrets during the Second World War after she died aged 98. Mary Ratcliffe worked at a ...

To Kill a Machine at King's Head Theatre re-tells the story of the life of Alan Turing in the light of his appalling treatment after the war, when he was chemically castrated for having sex with a man ...