"The Imitation Game" helped make World War II code breaker Alan Turing a household name. But for all the attention he has gotten for breaking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, the British mathematician ...

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.

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

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 ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing.

Often considered the father of modern computer science, Alan Turing was famous for his work developing the first modern computers, decoding the encryption of German Enigma machines during the ...

A series of rare and important scientific papers by mathematical genius Alan Turing are set to be auctioned off next week.

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.

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.