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On June 23, we commemorate the birth of Alan Mathison Turing, a visionary whose profound contributions laid the very groundwork for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Often hailed as the ...

Actor Lee Sang-yoon has been cast in the play "Turing Machine." Lee Sang-yoon has been chosen to play Alan Turing in the play "Turing Machine," which opens Jan. 8, 2026, at the Sejong Center for the ...

This new musical for a cast of seven by David Byrne and Dominic Brennan tells the story of Alan Turing’s life and work. It follows him from being a misfit at Sherborne, doing his ground breaking and ...

On the left, Turing’s original test involves a human interrogator (C) trying to identify a machine (A) that imitates a human assistant (B). On the right, the modern Turing-like test replaces the human ...

Turing machines are widely believed to be universal, in the sense that any computation done by any system can also be done by a Turing machine. In a new article, researchers present their work ...

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.

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Turing machines were first proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936, and are a theoretical mathematical model of what it means for a system to "be a computer." At a high level, these ...