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Alan Turing, the 'Father of modern computing,' born on June 23, 1912, revolutionized technology with his Turing machine ...
Alan Turing wartime manuscript, Enigma machine up for auction 03:27 "The Imitation Game" helped make World War II code breaker Alan Turing a household name. But for all the attention he has gotten ...
The Bombe found potential Enigma settings not by proving a particular setting, but by disproving every incorrect one in turn. All 200 Bombe machines were destroyed after the war. Turing died a ...
Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine has a fascinating history and unique workings. This animation delves ...
Mary Ratcliffe (pictured), who has died aged 98, worked at a secret code breaking base in Middlesex, helping to decode Nazis messages, using machines invented by Alan Turing.
Alan Turing, father of computer ... He went on to design and help build that machine — the “Bombe,” without which the Allies might have lost the war — thereby instigating a huge leap ...
Alan Turing may be the star of The Imitation Game, but the truly central figure in the film is Christopher. Named after Turing's childhood friend and first love, the machine not only breaks the ...
Alan Turing's was a once-in-a-generation mind, ticking with mathematical insights that helped end a war and usher in the computing era. That uncanny brain, however, wasn't enough to save him from ...
Turing immediately got to work designing a codebreaking machine called the Bombe (an update of a previous Polish machine) with the help of his colleague Gordon Welchman.
The father of computer science himself: Alan Turing. Today we’re going to take a step back from programming and discuss the person who formulated many of the theoretical concepts that underlie ...