WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...

World War II British mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing. A 56-page handwritten notebook belonging to World War II Nazi code-breaker Alan Turing sold for more than $1 million at auction Monday ...

Alan Turing’s lost notebook, in which he worked on the foundations of modern computer science, was sold for a whopping $1,025,000 at the Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale at Bonhams, which took place ...

UK intelligence agency GCHQ has celebrated its centenary year by releasing emulators for famous code cipher and code breakers used in World War II. Last week, GCHQ said on Twitter that the public can ...

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 ...

A WWII Enigma encryption machine with four rotors was sold at auction earlier this week, achieving double its estimated price ...

The father of modern computing is to be granted a posthumous pardon, thanks to a backbench bill tabled for the end of October. Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but ...

Alan Turing, a mathematician and code breaker who deciphered German World War II messages, will appear on Britain's new 50 pound note. The Bank of England made the announcement Monday that Turing, who ...

The British government chemically castrated Alan Turing. Now it wants to say that wasn't quite cricket. Or, rather, it wants to pardon him for the heinous crime of having been a homosexual. As the ...

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