This year’s honor will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who specializes in randomness. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Computers seem ...

BLETCHLEY, England— A founding father of the modern computer, Alan Turing devised a machine that unraveled the enigma of Nazi codes and aided the defeat of Adolf Hitler. Convicted of homosexuality ...

What role did Alan Turing play in World War II? Are the Turing Machine and the Turing Test the same thing? Machine learning ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, scientists began wondering whether mental work could be mechanized just like physical labor. This video explores how that question led Alan Turing to design the ...

Imagine trying to tell whether you are talking to a human or a machine using only text messages. This video explores Alan Turing’s famous Turing Test and the deeper question behind artificial ...