QOTD: "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done"

The legendary computer scientist outlined the foundations for many of the technologies we use today ...
The Mirror

British maths genius Alan Turing was beaten to the Enigma code by Poland by 10 years

British maths genius Alan Turing was famously the man who decoded messages on the Nazi’s Enigma machine – and cut short the Second World War by two years. But it was the Poles who, a decade earlier, ...
Yahoo

Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction A collection of rare scientific papers written by ...
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Alan Turing was nothing short of a genius, and his work saved scores of soldiers during WWII—only for the world to turn its back on him

The world owes so much to Alan Turing. Without his quick and clever mind, the Allied Forces may never have been able to unravel the impossible messages produced by the German Enigma machine. WWII ...
RealClearScience

Today’s AI Could Easily Crack WWII Enigma Code

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...
AOL

The Ingenious Machine That Broke the ‘Unbreakable’ Nazi Code

As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made significant use of the commercial Enigma cipher device, which went on sale beginning in 1923. To make it more secure, they modified ...
Popular Science

Saved from the shredder, Alan Turing’s papers sell for $627,000

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Smithsonian Magazine

British Government Places Export Ban on Alan Turing’s World War II-Era Notebooks

Another rare example of Alan Turing's handwritten notes, which went to auction in 2015 Dickson Lee / South China Morning Post via Getty Images The British government has placed an export ban on a ...
Artnet

The U.K. Bars Export of Alan Turing’s Wartime Notebooks

The British government is hoping a national institution will snap up two notebooks belonging to groundbreaking mathematician Alan Turing, so that the documents can remain in the U.K. A temporary ...
Dark Reading

Enigma Cipher Device Still Holds Secrets for Cyber Pros

Enigma cipher machines have endured in the minds of history buffs and cryptography hobbyists for more than a century, still discovered at dusty French flea markets and dredged up from under beach ...
The New York Times

Alan M Turing

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. By Katrina Miller The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan ...