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 ...

Scientists working at The University of Manchester have shone new light on the Enigma machine used by the German military in World War Two and cracked by Alan Turing and his team of code breakers at ...

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 ...

Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer ... managed to break the Germans' seemingly impregnable Enigma encoding machine, was classified. Now, through works such as Station ...

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 ...

Alan Turing was not a well known figure during ... In July 1939, the Polish Cipher Bureau passed on crucial information about the Enigma machine, which was used by the Germans to encipher all ...

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 ...

Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated ... at Bletchley Park—worked differently from the better known Enigma machine. Enigma was usually used for messages transmitted over ...

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 ...

Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954) was a mathematician ... His contribution lead to the breaking of the German Enigma machine, an achievement that sees him chosen as the next face on the £50 note.