During his research, he found most machines were created using electrical parts so he decided to challenge himself by building a purely mechanical Turing machine. Unlike the machine Alan Turing ...

The Coupland Building 1 is where the famous World War II codebreaker, mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing worked while he was at Manchester. Turing had become famous for his 1937 paper ...

In recognition of his achievements, the home of The School of Mathematics at The University of Manchester, completed in 2007, was named the Alan Turing building. The building also houses the Photon ...

Today mathematician Alan Turing is world-famous because he helped the Allies achieve victory against the Axis powers by deciphering an encryption that was considered unbreakable. That story ...

[Alan Turing]’s efforts with Colossus were top secret for years, and while that work built on earlier efforts in Poland, [Turing] has as much claim to be the father of computers as anyone.

A collection of rare project writings by Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has been saved for the nation after an export bar was placed on them to prevent them being taken abroad.

Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing both loved maths and computers ... He’d had an amazing idea, a way of building a calculating machine that would be able to do difficult sums. At that time, there ...

Alan Turing was an English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science. Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a Ferranti computer in January 1951. Turing had ...