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 ...

Before we all had what are essentially little powerful computers in our pockets at the ready to solve any problem via search engines and AI, analog machines combined with pen-and-paper math was the go ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rare papers of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing fetch record sum at UK auction A collection of rare scientific papers written by ...

LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Britain has stopped the export of rare wartime papers that once belonged to national hero Alan Turing, who helped the Allies win World War Two by cracking Nazi Germany's ...

The story of breaking the unbreakable German Enigma Code by Alan Turing during WWII. Narrated by Keith Morrison of "Dateline," the breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the ...

Items belonging to an Englishman credited with cracking encrypted Nazi communications during World War II, and who later earned accolades as one of the founding fathers of computer science, were ...

The things Alan Turing imagined decades ago have led to the creation of the computers and phones we use today. While many know him for his scientific achievements, the play "Breaking the Code" at ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

Bletchley Park is now internationally famous as the home of the code-breakers during World War Two. But the endeavours of Alan Turing, Dilly Knox and their colleagues were so top secret that we are ...