The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

When the German military surrendered unconditionally on 8 May 1945, many in Britain savored the first taste of peace. But for Alan Turing and his young assistant Donald Bayley, it was just another day ...

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...