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 previously ...

Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine has a fascinating history and unique workings. This animation delves into its mechanisms and significance. Further topics explored include: - ...

While efforts in Europe focused on Enigma, the outcome of the Pacific War hinged on intercepting and breaking Japanese naval ciphers—most notably the code known as JN-25. This code was a two-step ...

Dr Turing, who was pivotal in breaking the Enigma code, arguably shortening the Second World War by at least two years, was chemically castrated following his conviction in 1952. His conviction for ...

Before we all had what are essentially little powerful computers in our pockets at the ready to solve any problem via search engines and AI, analog machines combined with pen-and-paper math was the go ...

The Enigma code, once deemed unbreakable by Nazi Germany and famously cracked by Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park, would pose little challenge to modern computing power, say technology ...

The usual thing, when you've seen an interesting film, is to want to read the book. But after a screening of The Imitation Game over Christmas, I had a terrible urge instead to do the crossword. As ...

ITV Channel's Kate Prout speaks to the family of a Bletchley Park codebreaker about her remarkable life - and secret... A Guernsey woman who helped to crack German enemy codes during the Second World ...

Codebreaking Second World War veterans smiled as they reunited at the scene of their wartime service in Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes. British codebreakers, including Alan Turing, were based at ...

The home of computer pioneer Alan Turing is up for sale and it could be yours for a cool £1.1m. Copper Folly on Adlington Road, Wilmslow - home of Turing, the brilliant mathematician and Nazi ...