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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]
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... [06 Aug 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News The letter calls for secure long-term financial backing on a par with other museums such as the Imperial War Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum. The survival of Bletchley Park, the... [24 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo This photo story is a peek into one of the world's great supercomputer labs housed inside the US's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a leading research institution and the site of the reactor in which plutonium for the... [14 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the... [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the... [01 May 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo It was used to crack Nazi codes in the World War II and was one of the world's first programmable computers. One of the competitors, Team Lux showed off their car in... [29 Nov 2007]
Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist
Comment Since World War II it's going literally exponential and what we are experiencing now is the real vertigo of that - we have no idea at all now where we are going. Science... [06 Aug 2007]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo Missile Command is a Cold War classic from 1980 in which players defend cities from the threat of interplanetary ballistic missiles. Pac-Man was another benchmark in arcade gaming, moving away from the... [28 Nov 2006]
Ernie: The fastest premium bonds machine in the north-west relaunched
News Ernie 1 was built by the team behind the World War II code-breaking Colossus machine. Ernie is normally based in Blackpool but, to celebrate the fourth-generation machine's launch, the... [17 Aug 2004]
Cryptography and the Internet
White Paper Cryptography,the art and science of secret codes, has evolved dramatically over the centuries,especially since World War II. For most of their history, codes have relied... [25 Feb 2004]
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