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

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

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

And then came Turing’s work on finite-state automata. I n 1936, Turing published a paper in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society which proposed a theoretical “machine” (mathematical ...

Discover how artificial intelligence evolved over a century through periods of innovation, AI winters, and the deep learning breakthroughs shaping 2026.

In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a complicated calculating machine. Computers were expensive, slow by modern ...