When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...

On June 23, we commemorate the birth of Alan Mathison Turing, a visionary whose profound contributions laid the very groundwork for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Often hailed as the ...

When Alan Turing worked at Bletchley Park during the second world war, he helped solve a diabolical puzzle: cracking Nazi Germany’s “unbreakable” Enigma code. Next month, the British government is ...

We’ll beat everyone to the punch: yes, actually building a working Turing machine, especially one that uses a Raspberry Pi, is probably something that would have pushed [Alan Turing]’s buttons, and ...

We want speaking machines because language is the best way to rapidly communicate ideas. Users want their lives made easier and Hollywood wants their 1960s predictions proven right. But computers ...

Meta's Yann LeCun (R) and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis are at the forefront of the AI revolution. But are they asking the most important questions? “Well, we’re fooled by their fluency, right? We ...

The design of the Bank of England's new £50 note, featuring the computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing, has been revealed. The banknote will enter circulation on 23 June, which would have been ...