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Alan Turing

January 2020

  • Alan Turing<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX/Shutterstock (1945063c) Alan Turing Alan Turing

    Scientist Alan Turing's degree, medal and memorabilia recovered in Colorado

    Computer pioneer’s items were taken from British school in 1984 and seized after woman offered them for loan to university

August 2019

  • FILE PHOTO: People pose with laptops in front of projection of Google logo in this picture illustration taken in Zenica<br>FILE PHOTO: People are silhouetted as they pose with laptops in front of a screen projected with a Google logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014. This logo has been updated and is no longer in use. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo

    The Guardian view on ethics for mathematicians: an essential addition

  • New fifty pound note<br>PABest Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, during the announcement that Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing has been selected to feature on the next £50 note, at Science and Industry Museum, Manchester. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday July 15, 2019. The new polymer £50 note is expected to enter circulation by the end of 2021. See PA story MONEY Banknote. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

    Alan Turing inquest verdict is questionable

July 2019

  • U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to members of the media following a televised town hall event in New York<br>U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks to members of the media following a televised town hall event on the “Green New Deal” in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 29, 2019. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

    Brief letters
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be most welcome here

    Brief letters: Trump’s racist comments | £50 notes | Holiday eating | Izal toilet paper
  • The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, reveals Alan Turing as the new figure to be depicted on the £50 note.

    Brief letters
    The Turing test for those in the money

    Brief letters: Wahhabi Islam | Boris Johnson | Alan Turing £50 note | Izal toilet paper

    • Putting Alan Turing on the £50 note is a triumph for British science – and for equality

      Emily Grossman

    • Alan Turing to feature on new £50 banknote

    • The father of modern computing: Alan Turing's legacy

May 2019

  • Will Eaves

    Will Eaves: ‘Life is chancier than we imagine: we’re never far from the edge’

  • Will Eaves, author

    Will Eaves wins Wellcome book prize for fictionalised take on Alan Turing

April 2019

  • Boats full of US troops waiting to leave Weymouth, Southern England, to take part in the D-Day landings.

    Unsung Bletchley Park hero whose role in D-day was equal to Turing’s

  • Hannover Industry Fair starts in Hanover<br>epa07476892 A robot and a dancer perform during the opening ceremony of the Hannover Industry Fair, in Hanover, Germany, 31 March 2019. From 01 April to 05 April, 6,500 exhibitors from 75 countries show their products during one of the world’s leading fair for industrial goods. The main focus is on Artificial Intelligence and the new mobile standard 5G. EPA/JENS SCHLUETER

    Human error, not artificial intelligence, poses the greatest threat

November 2018

  • Just who are you really talking to?

    The charge of the chatbots: how do you tell who’s human online?

  • Alan Turing

    Turing, Lovelace or Franklin? Your choices for the new £50 note

April 2018

  • Benedict Cumberbatch

    Book of the day
    Murmur by Will Eaves review – inside the mind of Alan Turing

    First love and the nature of consciousness are examined in this extraordinary journey into the cryptanalyst’s dreamworld

November 2017

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    Culture highlights of the week
    Culture highlights: what to see this week in the UK

  • six Zoroastrian tiles from the late 1980s used in a domestic Parsi shrine from Living with Gods at the British Museum.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Alan Turing is decoded, Hastings bags a prize and Gilbert & George go wild – the week in art

October 2017

  • Codebreakers and Groundbreakers' exhibition<br>Embargoed to 0001 Monday October 23 Undated handout photo issued by the Fitzwilliam Museum of Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing's school report which on display at the Codebreakers and Groundbreakers' exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday October 23, 2017. The exhibition explores the world of codebreaking, cryptography and deciphering ancient script from 1500 BC to the present day through the lives of those who broke the codes. See PA story HERITAGE Turing. Photo credit should read: The Fitzwilliam Museum/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Alan Turing’s school report reveals little of his genius

  • HMS Petard

    The boarding of U-559 changed the war – now both sides tell their story

August 2017

  • Alan Turing letters.

    Collection of letters by codebreaker Alan Turing found in filing cabinet

    The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester
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