Computational scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award. The prize, which is given annually by the Association ...

In the United States in 1951, people were humming the tune of a brand new Christmas hit, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” Across the pond, however, listeners were treated to something ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yesterday, at a University of Reading demonstration in London, a computer convinced human judges that it was actually a ...

Detail of a rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The model is similar to the Mark II, on which the first recorded computer music was played. (photo by Alan ...

The world of high-tech hype was thrown on its ear over the weekend by the news that a computer had passed the “Turing Test” for the first time. The idea was that a machine had finally breached a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the weekend, a group of programmers claimed they built a program that passed the famous Turing Test, in which a computer tries to trick judges into believing that it is a human. According to news ...