The Imitation Game starring Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the English genius of math, cryptology, and logic, is due for release Nov. 21. The movie combines computer science and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The pair’s onstage relationship feels most convincing when Turing finally gets to the second world war ...

The history of musical theatre is littered with unlikely subjects for shows – and to that list we can now confidently add Alan Turing. The life of that genius cracker of the German Enigma code and ...

The name Alan Turing will mean different things to different people. On the one hand, he is the previously unsung hero of World War II, creating a device that finally decrypted Hitler’s Enigma machine ...

Alan Turing – A Musical Biography will play Studio 3 at Riverside Studios from 8 – 27 January, with a press night on Tuesday 9 January. Directed by Jane Miles, with music by Joel Goodman and Jan ...

A letter sent from Alan Turing to his mathematician friend Norman Routledge shows the codebreaker's worries and "distress" ahead of pleading guilty to gross indecency in 1952. An excerpt from the ...

GCHQ – the Government Communications Headquarters – is to hold its first book launch for a forthcoming biography of Alan Turing written by his nephew. As the successor organisation to Bletchley Park ...

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