The father of computer science himself: Alan Turing. Today we’re going to take a step back from programming and discuss the person who formulated many of the theoretical concepts that underlie ...

Alan Turing is credited as being the first to dream up the concept of a computer and how it might work. This was in the 1930s. His ideas form the basis of the machines that we rely upon today. He ...

Alan Turing was the father of computer science and his Turing machine laid the groundwork for the modern computer. Born in London on June 23, 1912, the mathematician and scientist took an interest in ...

Alan Turing was not a well known figure during his lifetime. But today he is famous for being an eccentric yet passionate British mathematician, who conceived modern computing and played a crucial ...

The brilliant English mathematician Alan Turing cracked German codes in WWII, revolutionized computer science—and foresaw the moral questions of modern technology.

Alan Turing Google Doodle: Turing Machine Codebreaker Logo Honors Father of Computer Science Today, Google celebrates what would have been Alan Turing’s 100th birthday with an interactive HTML5 logo ...

If Turing invented computer science, which is itself something of an oversimplification, then surely he must have invented the computer.

Harvard Professor Leslie G. Valiant has won the Turing Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in computer science, for his research in the field of artificial intelligence last week.

Jean-Yves Marion, From Turing machines to computer viruses, Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 370, No. 1971, The foundations of computation, physics and ...