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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alan Turing’s Delilah Project During the war, Turing realized that cryptology’s new frontier was going to be the encryption ...
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 ...