It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the European part of World War II came to an end. Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley ...

A new housing estate in Derbyshire has been named in honour of a World War Two codebreaker who once lived there. The 38 homes ...

Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of England's cipher-cracking organization, Bletchley Park, were mathematicians, crossword-puzzle fanatics, and other ...

A missing message from rogue mathematician Alan Turing surfaces as part of the celebrations for his 100th birthday. In code, it provides the key to a century old puzzle that, if solved, will ...

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 ...

The Bletchley is a spy-themed London bar where you have to crack codes to order drinks. To do that, you use imitation World War 2 Enigma machines which generate a unique code for every "agent.

Alan Turing was not a well known figure during his lifetime. But today he is famous for being an eccentric yet passionate British mathematician, who conceived modern computing and played a crucial ...

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 ...

Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954) was a mathematician, computer scientist and codebreaker. Often dubbed ‘the father of modern computing’, Turing was based at The University of Manchester after his work ...