Why? We don’t know.” Alan Turing, the mathematician and codebreaker, was wrestling with exactly this problem when he died in 1954, his paper on the formation of daisy petals half-finished.

Alan Turing, known as the father of artificial intelligence (AI), is to become a "groundbreaking" interactive display that ...

The 2015 Oscar winner “The Imitation Game” tells the story of British mathematician Alan Turing, whose early computer helped the allies win World War II. But the movie also brings attention to ...

The design of the Bank of England's new £50 note, featuring the computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing, has been revealed. The banknote will enter circulation on 23 June, which would have ...

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 ...

Over the years, there have been numerous claims that AI chatbots have passed the Turing test, but those tests lack sufficient ...

Alan Turing theorized a machine that could do infinite calculations from an infinite amount of data that computes based on a set of rules. It starts with an input, transforms the data and outputs ...

Training in symbolic logic is critical in many careers, for responsible citizenship and better lives. It is also an ...

Marigold “Margot” McNeely, who warned British cities of German air attacks during World War II, died Sept. 12 in her ...

AI-generated falsehoods and deepfakes seem to have had no effect on election results in the UK, France, and the European ...

Alan Turing was an English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science. Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a Ferranti computer in January 1951. Turing had ...

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