Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

A few years ago, composer Matthew Suttor was exploring Alan Turing’s archives at King’s College, Cambridge, when he happened upon a typed draft of a lecture the pioneering computer scientist and World ...

On 8 June 1954, Turing’s cleaner found him dead. He had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the ...

In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a complicated calculating machine. Computers were expensive, slow by modern ...

Detail of a rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The model is similar to the Mark II, on which the first recorded computer music was played. (photo by Alan ...

Soon, the machines really might be watching your every move -- and, for the first time, independently making sense of what they see. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...

Hallucinations of language models are not an engineering problem: they stem from mathematical limits proven since the 1930s.

This year’s honor will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who specializes in randomness. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Computers seem ...