Alan Turing is known for his scientific achievements, but openness in his personal life caused his public downfall.

In 1950 Alan Turing devised a thought experiment that has since been revered as the ultimate test of machine intelligence. He called it the “imitation game,” but most people know it as the Turing test ...

Central Square Theater passes its own Turing test with U.S. premier of an updated production about the master mathematician.

This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?” The test’s goal was to determine if a ...

The AI-mpersonation is complete. The dystopian lessons in every sci-fi movie from “Terminator” to “Ex Machina” appear to be coming true. Artificial intelligence has become so sophisticated that bots ...

During World War II Turing worked at the secret Bletchley Park code-breaking center, where he helped crack Nazi Germany's secret codes by creating the "Turing bombe," a forerunner of modern computers.

Germany's top-secret World War II code was called "Enigma." The Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code was very much an enigma himself. Anthony Mason this morning helps decode the ...

What does Alan Turing mean to Microsoft and the rest of the modern tech world? Rick Rashid can tell you. As part of Turing Week-- its tribute to seminal computer scientist Alan Turing, whose 100th ...

Alan Turing's last paper may help produce fresh, clean drinking water someday soon. Chemist Zhe Tan of Zhejiang University and her colleagues designed a membrane that filters salt out of water much ...

Two researchers in the Netherlands helmed the construction of a LEGO Turing machine, a quirky manifestation of the classic computer science concept first devised by Alan Turing in 1936. The device, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. To clarify, there are lots of claims these days about ...

You'd think a company that takes security as seriously as Turing Robotics does wouldn't paint its first smartphones purple, red, gold or blue, but you'd have it pegged wrong. For a freshman effort, ...