Alan Turing's was a once-in-a-generation mind, ticking with mathematical insights that helped end a war and usher in the computing era. That uncanny brain, however, wasn't enough to save him from the ...

Ever since, the so-called Turing Test embodied in that paper, Computing Machinery And Intelligence, has served as a yardstick ...

As mentioned already on The Conversation and other websites, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of famed British mathematician Alan Turing. According to some, computer intelligence is ...

As the latest set of contestants fail the infamous Turing Test, John Pavlus explores what it will take to create a computer that can think like a human. How can you tell if a computer can think? In ...

WORLD WAR II code-breaker and unsung hero Alan Turing is now on the Bank of England's newly-designed £50 note. Many people know about Turing's work that helped to win WWII but a lot of his other world ...

Britain has tried to make good by one of its most famous sons, posthumously pardoning Alan Turing for a gay sex conviction which tarnished the brilliant career of the code breaker credited with ...

Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, a brilliant British mathematician and computer scientist who was highly influential in the creating what would become the modern ...

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 ...

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WORLD WAR II code-breaker and unsung hero Alan Turing is now on the Bank of England's newly-designed £50 note. Many people know about Turing's work that helped to win WWII but a lot of his other world ...