Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction A collection of rare scientific papers written by ...

Alan Mathison Turing wasn’t just the gay mathematician and computer scientist who helped defeat the Nazis during World War II by cracking their “Enigma” code — he was also a close friend to gay fellow ...

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. While ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 56-page handwritten notebook that belonged to World War Two Nazi code breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the film "The Imitation ...

Director and lead actor of talk about the remarkable life of the genius Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, best known for his work at Bletchley Park, breaking the Enigma code used by Nazi ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. By Katrina Miller The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan ...

A play about the life of mathematician and World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing is set to open in the autumn before touring the country. Breaking the Code, based on the book Alan Turing, The Enigma, ...

A former beauty queen who worked as a teleprinter operator at Bletchley Park has marked her 100th with a party and a letter ...

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...