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 ...

Alan Turing is known for his scientific achievements, but openness in his personal life caused his public downfall.

Alan Turing theorized a machine that could do infinite calculations from an infinite amount of data that computes based on a set of rules. It starts with an input, transforms the data and outputs an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. To clarify, there are lots of claims these days about ...

Germany's top-secret World War II code was called "Enigma." The Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code was very much an enigma himself. Anthony Mason this morning helps decode the ...

An image of multiple 3D shapes representing speech bubbles in a sequence, with broken up fragments of text within them (Wes Cockx & Google DeepMind /BetterimagesofAI) A leading AI chatbot has passed a ...

What does Alan Turing mean to Microsoft and the rest of the modern tech world? Rick Rashid can tell you. As part of Turing Week-- its tribute to seminal computer scientist Alan Turing, whose 100th ...

Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician credited with deciphering Nazi Germany’s impenetrable Enigma code, has been chosen as the face of Britain’s new £50 note. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney ...

The machine referred to in The Imitation Game as “the crooked hand of death itself,” and simply as “beautiful” by Benedict Cumberbatch’s Alan Turing, still exists—but you’ll have to fight the ...

Theoretical ideas have a real-life impact,” said Michael Oser Rabin in a 2009 interview, 1 and he spent nearly seven decades ...

Alan Turing's last paper may help produce fresh, clean drinking water someday soon. Chemist Zhe Tan of Zhejiang University and her colleagues designed a membrane that filters salt out of water much ...

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, ...