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Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News His announcement follows the recent award of £460,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to Bletchley Park and the apology by Prime Minster Gordon Brown to Alan Turing, the gifted Bletchley Park mathematician. [13 Oct 2009]
Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology
News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister... [14 Sep 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo Many of the veterans returning to Bletchley on Sunday were the Royal Navy Wrens who worked on the Type-X and the Bombe machine, developed by mathematician Alan Turing to crack the keys to Enigma codes -... [07 Sep 2009]
'If Google decided to misbehave there'd be big trouble'
Comment The Turing Award, which is named after British mathematician Alan Turing, has been awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery every year since 1966. 2008 Turing... [08 Apr 2009]
WWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News The huts in which mathematician Alan Turing and others worked on codebreaking will not receive any of the funds, said Greenish, as they form part of an application for funds from the National Lottery. [12 Mar 2009]
Gates, open source, Azure and the cloud
News Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test silicon.com spoke to Hugh Loebner, the founder of a competition designed to find the first true example of artificial intelligence according to a definition set out by... [30 Dec 2008]
Artificial intelligence put to the Turing Test
News The Turing Test originates from a 1950 paper written by computing pioneer and World War II code-breaking genius, Alan Turing, in which he suggested machines are capable of thought. The... [10 Oct 2008]
Hugh Loebner
AS Profile Bletchley Park code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing came up with the test as a result of his belief that machines should be able to think - something known as natural language processing. Since... [07 Oct 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo Alan Turing - widely seen as the father of modern computer science - worked at the NPL in the 1940s after his time at Bletchley Park where he was involved in cracking German code during World War II.... [06 Aug 2008]
Inbox: Vista, Bletchley Park and Cuil
Comment It is about computing and where we would be today without the pioneers at Bletchley Park such as Alan Turing. Microsoft has been beating the Vista drum again. And Vista versus XP (and even Windows 98) is... [31 Jul 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News The Bletchley Park Trust needs around £1m to repair the roof of the park's mansion and a similar amount to restore three huts used by legendary figures such as Alan Turing. Historic Bletchley Park needs... [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo These wireless telegraphy huts were used by people like Alan Turing to crack the Nazi army's coded messages, such as those sent by the famous Enigma machine which Hitler believed was unbreakable.... [18 Mar 2008]
Criminal IT: Why insecurity is implicit in computing
Comment The person who, more than any other, was responsible for laying the foundations of this work was the incomparable genius, Alan Turing. One feature of Turing's work, though, was to show... [18 May 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Medieval historians bite back
Comment Following Alan Turing, there was a ferment of ideas as people worked to gain an understanding of computational techniques. We can point with pride to the achievements of Alan... [02 Mar 2004]
Bill Gates turns his back on tech Mecca
News Large said the overall plan is to turn Bletchley into a communications heritage park, building on its innovative history, which includes being the site of mathematical genius Alan Turing's development of... [11 Aug 2003]
