"The Imitation Game" helped make World War II code breaker Alan Turing a household name. But for all the attention he has gotten for breaking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, the British mathematician ...

Apple Watch and Android Wear is cool and everything, but the best wrist wearables are often made from Arduino boards and some tinkering, much like this super great Enigma watch. Although known ...

[Credit: Jeroen van den Bosand, Davy Landman] How do you mark the birthday of Alan Turing, the “Father of Computers”? You could make a Google Doodle, or you could ...

One of the most important characters in “The Imitation Game” doesn’t say a word. It’s Christopher, a.k.a. the Bombe, an electro-mechanical code-breaking machine — a precursor of the modern computer — ...

The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

Alan Turing has been enjoying quite a run in the past couple years, what with the movie The Imitation Game copping a Best Picture Oscar nomination and Benedict Cumberbatch setting hearts a-flutter as ...