New Scientist

Alan Turing

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

Quote of the day by Alan Turing: "If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be?"

Long before anyone had built a machine capable of holding a real conversation, Alan Turing was already asking what would ...
Quanta Magazine

Turing machines

Quanta Magazine Articles on Turing machines In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ...
Forbes

The 75th Anniversary Of The Turing Test

This month is the 75 th anniversary of the Turing Test, which Alan Turing introduced to the world in his paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, published in the October 1950 issue of the ...
Time

Computer Pioneer Alan Turing Pardoned of 'Gross Indecency'

UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 18: Ferranti, a weapons and electronics company, was commissioned by the British government to manufacture this computer. It was based on a prototype known as the Manchester Mark ...