Alan Turing wasn’t just some random name from your high school math textbook. The British mathematician, codebreaker, and computing pioneer didn’t just help crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Gerui Wang writes about AI, society, media, and culture. The race to build powerful AI data centers is accelerating, with tech ...

ENGLAND – The Queen of England herself, Queen Elizabeth II granted a Royal pardon for internationally acclaimed British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing. Turing took his own life in 1954 ...

A few years ago, composer Matthew Suttor was exploring Alan Turing’s archives at King’s College, Cambridge, when he happened upon a typed draft of a lecture the pioneering computer scientist and World ...

Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of ...

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 inspired ...