Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

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 ...

In the United States in 1951, people were humming the tune of a brand new Christmas hit, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” Across the pond, however, listeners were treated to something ...

The Turing Test takes its name from a 1950 paper by Alan Turing, the British mathematician who laid out the foundations of modern computer science. Turing had wearied of the interminable debates about ...

Reporting from LONDON — Code breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing has been chosen as the face of Britain’s new 50-pound note, the Bank of England announced Monday. Gov. Mark Carney said Turing, ...

We’ve all been awestruck by movies like Her (a comedy about a withdrawn writer played by Joaquin Phoenix, who falls in love with his computer’s highly advanced operating system) or “Jarvis” from Iron ...

Last week at Reading University, 30 judges text-chatted with a bunch of humans and a bunch of computer programs pretending to be human, and the judges tried to figure out who was who. That is the ...