In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies played by Alan Turing's Mark II computer. The ...

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 ...

It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.

For as much as we know about the pioneering British computer scientist Alan Turing, we know relatively little about his death. Turing was found dead at his home in 1954, two years after he was outed ...

HE CALLED it the “oracle”. But in his PhD thesis of 1938, Alan Turing specified no further what shape it might take. Perhaps that is fair enough: aged just 26, the British mathematician had already ...

Do computers think? Some experts say yes, some say no. —Time magazine, Jan. 23, 1950 How do we tell whether a machine thinks? Much of today’s discussion of the matter starts with British computer ...

While most new Monopoly sets desperately try to keep up with the times—swapping cash for credit cards or using circular boards—here’s one which celebrates the past. Now you can play the ...