Professor Mark Girolami keeps seat warm after Jean Innes bailed following ministerial arm-twisting The Alan Turing ...

This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a ...

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English computer scientist Alan Turing is most known for a thought experiment first devised in 1950 —- can a computer pass as a human?

Whether or not you caught wind of the excited announcement that "Eugene Goostman," a computer program ("chatbot") devised by Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko and Sergey Ulasen, had passed the Turing ...

Notebook belonging to "The Imitation Game" code breaker sells for $1 million. — -- A notebook belonging to Alan Turing, the British code breaker who helped the allies win World War II, was sold ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. Alan Turing's last paper may help produce fresh, clean drinking water someday soon ...

Two researchers in the Netherlands helmed the construction of a LEGO Turing machine, a quirky manifestation of the classic computer science concept first devised by Alan Turing in 1936. The device, ...

The Bank of England began circulating its new £50 bank notes featuring World War II codebreaker Alan Turing on Wednesday, which would have been the pioneering math genius’ 109th birthday. Often ...

Isaac Huerta and William Clayton in 'Formulae & Fairy Tales' If you own a laptop or smartphone, you’re indebted to the genius of British mathematician Alan Turing, the World War II codebreaker and ...