The father of computer science himself: Alan Turing. Today we’re going to take a step back from programming and discuss the person who formulated many of the theoretical concepts that underlie ...

Alan Turing was not a well known figure during his lifetime. But today he is famous for being an eccentric yet passionate British mathematician, who conceived modern computing and played a crucial ...

Alan Turing was the father of computer science and his Turing machine laid the groundwork for the modern computer. Born in London on June 23, 1912, the mathematician and scientist took an interest in ...

Finding small universal Turing machines is not a major problem in modern computer science or mathematics.

Alan Turing Google Doodle: Turing Machine Codebreaker Logo Honors Father of Computer Science Today, Google celebrates what would have been Alan Turing’s 100th birthday with an interactive HTML5 logo ...

But in solving that problem, Turing invented the notion of a universal machine, a now-fundamental concept in computer science.

This Saturday June 23 marks the hundredth anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. Though the scientist and mathematician passed away over half a century ago, he is still remembered today for his ...

“The Turing machine gave some ideas about what computation was, what it would mean to have a program,” said James Hendler, a professor of computer science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

The Turing Award, which Cerf won in 2004, is considered the highest honor in computer science. The field's practitioners have decreed 2012 the Alan Turing Year.

If Turing invented computer science, which is itself something of an oversimplification, then surely he must have invented the computer.