Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

In the early 1950s, most people had never seen a computer. Those who had were unlikely to describe it as anything more than a ...

On 8 June 1954, Turing’s cleaner found him dead. He had died the previous day. A post-mortem examination established that the ...

We want speaking machines because language is the best way to rapidly communicate ideas. Users want their lives made easier and Hollywood wants their 1960s predictions proven right. But computers ...