At Bletchley Park, the British covertly recruited a team of the country's top cryptographers to try to crack the Germans' "Enigma" code. Among them: a young mathematician named Alan Turing.

Keeping war plans secret is vital to save troops’ lives and avoid setbacks. However, the Allies had a trick up their sleeve ...

The hidden history of Alan Turing is just a particularly bizarre example -- one we can expect to become much better known during the 2012 centenary of his birth. (Editor's note: This article was ...

Who was Alan Turing? Describe the “industrial operation” that worked to break the Enigma Machine. How did the breaking of the Enigma Machine have “enormous effects?” ...

Andrew Hodges’s brilliant 1982 biography, Alan Turing: The Enigma, makes clear he was a loner whose love of cross-country running fed his outsider status and helped him maintain a puny frame.

The story of Alan Turing, father of modern computing. His journey as a young man and how he achieved what was thought at the time impossible, the decryption of the most complex German enigma machine.

Papers written by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing are to go up for auction after they were found in a loft and almost shredded.The 1930s collection, which included a copy of Turing's PhD ...

Precious scientific papers once belonging to wartime codebreaking genius Alan Turing – rescued from an attic clear-out where ...

A cache of papers found in a loft and almost shredded is expected to fetch £150,000 after it was identified as the pioneering work of Alan Turing.

The popular Facebook post got most of the facts right. However, there's no evidence that Turing inspired the design of the Apple computer company's logo. Also, Turing's death in 1954 deserves ...