George Dyson has written a fascinating but flawed history of the computer. The son of the distinguished physicist Freeman Dyson, he was born in 1953 and as a child was witness to the world of ...

Modern computers wouldn’t exist without the pioneering theories posited by Alan Turing, however the famed computer scientist was never quite able to make a working model of his hypothetical device.

Freeman Dyson, 91, the famed physicist, author and oracle of human destiny, is holding forth after tea time one February afternoon in the common room of the Institute for Advanced Study. “Let me tell ...

This video shows our interview with George Dyson about his new book, Turing’s Cathedral. The book is a fascinating, meticulously researched account of the effort to build the first universal Turing ...

George Dyson’s fascinating and frustrating Turing’s Cathedral is loosely tethered to a particular time and place, but Dyson gives himself enough rope to bounce from one peripherally related subject to ...

Alan Turing’s work laid the foundation for modern artificial intelligence, particularly through his concept of the Turing Test, which evaluates a machine’s ability to exhibit human-like behaviour.

For decades, Hava Siegelmann has explored the outer reaches of computing with great curiosity and great conviction. The conviction shows up in a belief that there are forms of computing that go beyond ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental algorithms and theory underlying ...

June 23 marks the 100th birthday of Alan Turing. If I had to name five people whose personal efforts led to the defeat of Nazi Germany, the English mathematician would surely be on my list. Turing’s ...