NPR: Alan Turing turns 100

A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.

(AP) – 1 minute ago. LONDON (AP) — A group of British lawmakers is calling for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote. This year marks the centenary of the birth of Turing, who helped crack secret

Bruce Sterling gave a speech at the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) on the eve of the Alan Turing Centenary, and delivered a provocative, witty and important talk on the Turing

Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a computer, but now it's been coded up and who better to pit it against than.

Alan Turing, known as the father of computing, was born in England 100 years ago this week.