It's the 100th birthday of codebreaker Alan Turing this week, and to celebrate geek-style, WiredUK is running a contest with a cipher that needs busting. Call it the Turing test, if you will.

Alan Turing Buried His Life Savings Behind A Cipher So Hard, He Never Found It He never found his own buried treasure.

Alan Turing wartime manuscript, Enigma machine up for auction "The Imitation Game" helped make World War II code breaker Alan Turing a household name. But for all the attention he has gotten for ...

A working Enigma cipher machine that along with the 1942 56-page notebook belonging to codebreaker Alan Turing is to be auctioned Bonham's auction house on April 9, 2015 in New York City. (Photo ...

The names of Alan Turing and the Enigma encryption machine have grown inextricably linked over time, owing to Turing’s contribution to British decryption efforts during World War II. It’s ...

Turing also searched for a way to break into the torrent of messages suddenly emanating from a new, and much more sophisticated, German cipher machine. The British codenamed the new machine Tunny.

A trove of forgotten papers penned by famed World War II codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for the record-setting price of $627,000. But the June 17 auction almost never happened.

Alan Turing, the 'Father of modern computing,' born on June 23, 1912, revolutionized technology with his Turing machine concept. His codebreaking during World War II significantly shortened the war.

Visitors to Bletchley Park, the historic home where British World War II codebreakers unraveled Nazi secrets, will soon have the opportunity to converse with a life-like hologram of Alan Turing ...

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...