Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made significant use of the commercial Enigma cipher device, which went on sale beginning in 1923. To make it more secure, they modified ...

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

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction A collection of rare scientific papers written by ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

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