In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, the Allied forces facing Germany had a problem. While it was easy to intercept German wireless communications, their content was difficult to decipher as ...

Alan Turing is known for his scientific achievements, but openness in his personal life caused his public downfall.

During WWII, the Enigma Machine was used to encrypt messages, making it a fascinating topic of study. This video explores its ...

The breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom was one of World War II's biggest secrets, alongside the construction of the atomic bombs. Some historians ...

Director and lead actor of talk about the remarkable life of the genius Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, best known for his work at Bletchley Park, breaking the Enigma code used by Nazi ...

The word ‘genius’ should be used as sparingly as ‘hero’, if either is to mean anything. But it certainly applies to Alan Turing, the mathematician and logician, and ‘father of the modern computer’, ...

“The Imitation Game,” the awards season’s darling biopic of British mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing (“Sherlock’s” Benedict Cumberbatch), attempts to play its own “imitation game” with the ...