During World War II, the Germans used an encryption device called the Enigma, which Polish and English mathematicians worked ...

Alan Turing wasn’t just some random name from your high school math textbook. The British mathematician, codebreaker, and computing pioneer didn’t just help crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during ...

It's an exaggerated depiction of Turing's Bombe Machine, used to decode the Nazi's Enigma machine messages during World War II. Historians estimate that the work of Turing and his team shortened ...

Called the Bombe, Turing's electro-mechanical machine was capable of imitating Enigma devices, and carried out sophisticated crypto-analysis of the cipher to eventually read out the encoded ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This article is more than 5 years old. British mathematician Alan Turing designed the curiously named Bombe machine during the ...

“Ai-Da’s portrait hauntingly evokes Alan Turing, using muted tones and broken facial planes, and a background with shadowy forms of the Bombe machine.

The polymer note will enter circulation from June 23 this year, and incorporates a number of designs linked to Turing’s life and legacy. These include technical drawings for the bombe, a ...

In the end, it chose three, as well as a painting of Turing’s Bombe Machine, the name for the codebreaking device he built, which appears in the background.

Alan Turing, a mathematician and code breaker who deciphered German World War II messages, will appear on Britain's new 50 pound note. The Bank of England made the announcement Monday that Turing ...