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

Saved from the shredder, Alan Turing’s papers sell for $627,000 The archive contextualizes one of the 20th century's most brilliant thinkers. Andrew Paul Jun 18, 2025 12:54 PM EDT ...

A trove of Alan Turing's papers, including his own personal copy of his PhD dissertation, is going up for auction June 17 after narrowly avoiding destruction. The papers were "offprints," or ...

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. Turing, who died at 41 in 1952, was best known for helping to ...

Alan Mathison Turing was born in London on June 23, 1912. Although he lived a lonely childhood, he had a brilliant mind and is remembered today as one of the most talented mathematicians in modern ...

The Turing test, first proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing, was framed as a test that could supposedly tell us whether an AI system could ‘think’ like a human.