The Bank of England began circulating its new £50 bank notes featuring World War II codebreaker Alan Turing on Wednesday, which would have been the pioneering math genius’ 109th birthday. Often ...

Alan Turing – a brilliant British mathematician and one of the leading scientific geniuses of the 20th century, is regarded as the father of modern computer science and artificial intelligence.

The UK has unveiled its £50 Alan Turing bank note, and it's appropriately both very secure and a nod to the computer scientist's achievements. Bletchley Park was the site where Alan Turing and his ...

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.

This article is extracted from Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book that Inspired the Film The Imitation Game. Some text has been added by Newsweek to connect these extracts into a single narrative. On ...

The 50-pound note is getting a facelift. The Bank of England announced renowned mathematician and engineer Alan Turing would be honored by having his image placed on the highest-denomination of ...

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 ...

The father of computer science himself: Alan Turing. Today we’re going to take a step back from programming and discuss the person who formulated many of the theoretical concepts that underlie modern ...

On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born. But ...

A remarkable scientific document went under the hammer today at Bonhams in New York. The rare handwritten manuscript by Alan Turing in which he made notes on symbolic logic and mathematics during the ...

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The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan Turing]’s efforts with ...