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

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on rotating ...

Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and ...

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 ...

A collection of rare scientific papers written by mathematician, computer scientist and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for a record £465,400 (€544,400) at auction in Lichfield, UK.

The story of breaking the unbreakable German Enigma Code by Alan Turing during WWII. Narrated by Keith Morrison of "Dateline," the breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the ...

The pioneering work done by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in England was perhaps as important in the history of technology as it was the history of the war. Given the last 80-odd years of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 56-page handwritten notebook that belonged to World War Two Nazi code breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the film "The Imitation ...