The situation changed when Alan Turing fell in love with another able pupil, Christopher Morcom ... he invented the idea of a ‘Universal Machine’ that could decode and perform any set of ...

According to Turing's projections, the machine would have a very good chance of maintaining the illusion of humanness for at least five minutes within... "50 years or so." A page from Alan Turing ...

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 ...

Peter Westcombe, founder of the Bletchley Park Trust, explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park. play How Alan Turing ...

A mathematical model of computation. Named after English scientist Alan Turing, a Turing machine is a finite state machine that reads a tape divided into cells. The Turing machine examines the ...

famously led by Alan Turing, developed the ‘Turing Test’ (originally called the imitation game), the most famous benchmark test of artificial intelligence – whether a machine can ‘think ...

Over two days (13-14 Nov) The Alan Turing Building played host to a genuine 1941 German Army Enigma machine so it could be X-ray scanned by the Henry Royce Institute. The machine is a basic three ...

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 ...