Modern computers wouldn’t exist without the pioneering theories posited by Alan Turing, however the famed computer scientist was never quite able to make a working model of his hypothetical device.

A proof made public today illustrates that Stephen Wolfram's 2,3 Turing machine number 596440 is a universal Turing machine, and it has netted a University of Birmingham undergraduate $25,000. In 1936 ...

A theoretical computer built in a mixed-up mathematical universe might not sound like the most practical invention. But the discovery shows that computation can turn up in the most unlikely places, ...

Mathematician Alan Turing's theoretical basis for all modern computers known as the 'universal machine' has been voted the greatest British innovation of the past century in a new poll. The famous ...

LONDON—Alan Turing (1912-54) is best known as one of the Bletchley Park codebreakers who hastened the Allied victory in World War II by cracking the German Enigma code. But when only 24 years old, he ...

Read more: Click here to read a longer article regarding the Turing machine aspect of this story. A HUNDRED years after his birth, Alan Turing’s legacy comes in myriad guises. Last weekend, the ...

Alan Turing's reputation grows and grows, from the nadir of his conviction for "gross indecency", in 1952, to his present standing as a pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence, from ...