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 Garry Kasparov?
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
A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.
He broke the Nazis' code. He pioneered artificial intelligence. And he died a victim of bigotry.
Collector's stamp and envelope being issued by Bletchley Park Post Office for Olympic Torch Relay on 9th July. Features Alan Turing as the torch bearer to celebrate his centenary and London Olympics year.