English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science. Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a ...

Alan Turing was not a well known figure during ... Turing rapidly developed a new machine (the ‘Bombe’) capable of breaking Enigma messages on an industrial scale. In 1941, Turing’s section ...

Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together.

This English country estate offers a close-up look at the cryptographic hardware used to decode Nazi Germany’s encrypted ...

Dr. Raymond Bird, the developer of the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has passed away at the age of 101.

Long ReadThe British mathematician, whose fate was both exceptional and tragic, is considered a founding figure for the idea of artificial intelligence. His story, long overlooked, continues to be ...

Don’t forget to say hello to the swans on your way to the most important country estate in the history of computing.

I’m sure those new cryptographic methods will work just fine. But there is one encryption scheme, known even in Turing’s time, that is mathematically secure against not just quantum computers but any ...

Tributes have been paid to a Gosforth woman who worked at Bletchley Park intercepting German messages during World War Two ...