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<endeca_term>Alan Turing</endeca_term>: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

Alan Turing: 10 ideas beyond Enigma

...in a wider world changed by their discoveries. The hidden history of Alan Turing is just a particularly bizarre example — one we can expect to... Read more

3 March, 2012 by S Barry Cooper

Turing papers saved for the UK

...Alan Turing's personal collection of academic and other papers has been purchased... Read more

25 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

MPs: Tech hubs should be 'Turing Centres'

...support research and the commercialisation of ideas should be named after mathematician Alan Turing, according to an influential government committee. A Committee of MPs has... Read more

17 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Campaigners race to boost bid for Turing's papers

...to raise funds to buy papers written by ground-breaking computer scientist Alan Turing, which are set to go on public auction on Tuesday. A... Read more

23 November, 2010 by Jack Clark
Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park

Google donates £550,000 to Bletchley Park

...of around £62,000 towards the acquisition of code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing's papers in February. "Google are becoming very significant supporters of... Read more

15 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner
LEO computer marks 60th anniversary

LEO computer marks 60th anniversary

...pioneering computing advances made in the UK by code-breakers such as Alan Turing at Bletchley Park remained under wraps at the time due to... Read more

16 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Photos: Codebreaking Bletchley Park gets £4.6m lottery grant

...German officers." To help crack Enigma, a team of mathematicians led by Alan Turing developed the electromechanical Bombe machine in 1940, which can be seen... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Nick Heath
Colossus Mk 2

Colossus Mk 2

This upgrade to the world's first programmable, digital, electronic computing device is five times faster and simpler to operate than its pioneering predecessor. Read more

1 April, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Bletchley Park Trust gets £4.6m lottery grant

The trust has received over £4m of lottery funding to restore crumbling huts that were used by code-breakers in World War II, but cannot access the cash until it raises a further £1.7m Read more

5 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Alan Turing papers saved from export

...the UK... A rare collection of offprints written by Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing has been saved thanks to donations from Google, the public and... Read more

25 February, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Photos: Apple I, Enigma machine and Turing papers to be auctioned at Christie's

Also up for auction is lot 60, an almost complete set of Alan Turing's printed works. Turing was a mathematician and cryptanalyst who worked... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Tim Ferguson

Google Street View trike hits historic Bletchley Park

...repair. Meanwhile, in February this year, a rare collection of offprints of Alan Turing's published works, including his seminal paper On Computable Numbers, were... Read more

5 August, 2011 by Tim Ferguson
FourEyesUp London Guide 1.3

FourEyesUp London Guide 1.3

...corner - discover where people like Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Guglielmo Marconi and Alan Turing lived, worked and made history- EASY & QUICK navigation to find the... Read more

22 July, 2011
iKnowIt! 1.0.0

iKnowIt! 1.0.0

...Michelle Obama heightWas Bill Clinton married to Hillary Clinton in 1995?Was Alan Turing gay?Who is Audrey Hepburns mother?How did Charlton Heston die... Read more

20 July, 2011

Loving the robot: How thinking computers can make us better people

...unlikely tool of small talk. The test was first proposed by mathematician Alan Turing in the 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence. The test, which... Read more

1 July, 2011 by Steve Ranger

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