Turing is credited as one of the founding fathers of computing. Mathematician and World War II codebreaker, Alan Turing, has been honored by the Bank of England as the new face of the 50 pound note.

It was a long time coming: Historical items belonging to Alan Turing, the legendary British mathematician and code breaker, were returned to the Sherborne School in Dorset, England, during a special ...

The documentary Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing examines Turing and other gay men convicted under the U.K.’s 1885 anti-homosexuality law. It opens for a one-week run in NYC on Dec ...

Turing, born in 1912, was a brilliant mathematician who studied at Cambridge University and was recognised as being gifted from a young age. Although he was born and originally attended schools in ...

Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An all-boys boarding school in the United Kingdom on Tuesday welcomed back a collection of stolen mementos that once belonged to Alan Turing, the famed ...

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 ...

The British government is hoping a national institution will snap up two notebooks belonging to groundbreaking mathematician Alan Turing, so that the documents can remain in the U.K. A temporary ...

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Alan Turing, considered to be one of the fathers of computer science whose code-breaking work helped the Allies win the Second World War, has been given a royal pardon for his homosexuality conviction ...

A historical fictional novel based on Alan Turing is facing criticism for depicting the gay codebreaker fathering a secret child with a woman. The Turing Protocol is a fictional novel from author Nick ...