One of the last Enigma coding machines that the Nazis used to send encrypted messages during the Second World War has sold at auction. The device was valued between £50,000 and £70,000 but sold for a ...

Born June 23, 1912, legendary English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst Alan Turing is best-known today for successfully cracking “the Enigma code,” a sophisticated cipher used to ...

Only about six months after the first computer supposedly passed the Turing test -- Alan Turing’s test for determining whether a machine can be said to "think" -- “The Imitation Game” (2014) is here ...

You’re trying to break the German Enigma machine. … It’s the greatest encryption device in history, and the Germans use it for all major communications. If the Allies broke Enigma—well, this would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credits: The Weinstein Company The Imitation Game is a 2014 American biographical film based on the 1983 biography written by ...

Benedict Cumberbatch portrays WWII codebreaker Alan Turing alongside Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Allen Leech and Matthew Beard By Ashley Lee The Imitation Game, out in ...

Alan Turing, an ingenious British mathematician, cryptanalyst and, as presented in “The Imitation Game,” difficult personality, seems an unlikely hero. Yet the history-based Turing biopic convincingly ...

A biography of the mathematician, reveals the story of an eccentric genius, olympic-class runner, and groundbreaking theoretician whose work is still influencing the science and telecommunication ...

In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi codes, including Enigma -- which cryptanalysts had ...

Today, Alan Turing is considered the father of computer science. But the genius who broke Germany's Enigma code during World War II--saving countless lives as a result--was never publicly recognized ...