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The archive highlights a lifelong friendship between two renowned mathematicians. However, despite his accolades and singular mind, Turing couldn’t evade society’s bigotry. In 1952, a court in the ...
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 ...
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The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project
Alan Turing’s Delilah Project During the war, Turing realized that cryptology’s new frontier was going to be the encryption ...
Another rare example of Alan Turing's handwritten notes, which went to auction in 2015 Dickson Lee / South China Morning Post via Getty Images The British government has placed an export ban on a ...
This is a guest post by Chris Owen who works at Octopus Communications and is a passionate supporter of the Bletchley Park Trust. He can be found tweeting from <a ...
On the left, Turing’s original test involves a human interrogator (C) trying to identify a machine (A) that imitates a human assistant (B). On the right, the modern Turing-like test replaces the human ...
High Barnet codebreaker Ruth Bourne has died aged 98, a veterans charity has announced. After joining the Wrens (Women’s ...
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