LONDON – Alan Turing, a founding father of computer science and artificial intelligence, was revealed Monday as the face of Britain’s new 50-pound bank note. Turning was also famed as a World War II ...

The Bank of England has unveiled the new £50 note featuring mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, who helped the Allies win World War II with his code-breaking prowess but died an ...

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Alan Turing, the British mathematician known for his World War II code-breaking exploits and for a test to distinguish between human and machine intelligence, will be on 50-pound notes in the UK by ...

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 ...

The father of modern computing and A.I. will be the face of the U.K.’s new £50 note. Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney revealed that WWII codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing will be ...

For as much as we know about the pioneering British computer scientist Alan Turing, we know relatively little about his death. Turing was found dead at his home in 1954, two years after he was outed ...

After years of planning, WWII hero Alan Turing has officially become the first gay man on a British banknote. Turing’s face now graces the £50 note. The Bank of England began circulating the bill on ...

If Alan Turing isn’t already the patron saint of gay geeks he should be. The British Turing was a cryptologist during War World II, conducting work crucial to the Allied effort to decode German ...