Quote of the day by Alan Turing: "If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where should we be?"

In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a ...
Ars Technica

Alan Turing

Those of us who study computers learn about the different kinds of machine and their different capabilities. They've got names like deterministic finite automata, nondeterministic finite automata, and ...
The New York Times

Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary

His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II. Yet he died as a criminal for his homosexuality. Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose ...
NPR

Alan Turing, Computing Genius And WWII Hero, To Be On U.K.'s New 50-Pound Note

Alan Turing, the father of computer science and artificial intelligence who broke Adolf Hitler's Enigma code system in World War II — but who died an outcast because of his homosexuality — will be ...
New Scientist

The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?

DURING the 20th century, any book calling itself The Turing Guide would have been inconceivable. But in 2017 we have a massive and extraordinarily wide-ranging volume about the life, work and ...