Detail of a rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The model is similar to the Mark II, on which the first recorded computer music was played. (photo by Alan ...

Items belonging to an Englishman credited with cracking encrypted Nazi communications during World War II, and who later earned accolades as one of the founding fathers of computer science, were ...

It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.

HE CALLED it the “oracle”. But in his PhD thesis of 1938, Alan Turing specified no further what shape it might take. Perhaps that is fair enough: aged just 26, the British mathematician had already ...

Alan Turing, the British mathematician who laid the theoretical groundwork for modern computing and cracked coded messages from the Nazis, received a royal pardon on Tuesday. Turing was convicted ...

While most new Monopoly sets desperately try to keep up with the times—swapping cash for credit cards or using circular boards—here’s one which celebrates the past. Now you can play the ...