In London’s Imperial War Museum, a team staged a curious experiment: they fed a modern AI the problem that haunted Alan Turing during the darkest days of World War II and get a result in the time it ...

While efforts in Europe focused on Enigma, the outcome of the Pacific War hinged on intercepting and breaking Japanese naval ciphers—most notably the code known as JN-25. This code was a two-step ...

Barbara Southerland has finally been recognized at 99 for her secret wartime work for the famed Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park — 80 ...

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 ...

The process of looking for a job can be obtuse. You might feel the need for a genius like the one Benedict Cumberbatch plays in “The Imitation Game,” which is about breaking the Nazis’ enigma code in ...

pt. 1. Enlightenment and the anti-Bayesian reaction -- Causes in the air -- The man who did everything -- Many doubts, few defenders -- pt. 2. Second World War era -- Bayes goes to war -- Dead and ...

Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and ...