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The Bank of England slipped a hidden binary code in the design of the new £50 bill which features computer pioneer Alan Turing. Here's how to decipher it.
The architect of Alan Turing’s pardon has welcomed the news that he will front the new £50 note, saying it will serve as a ‘rightfully painful reminder of what we lost.’ ...
A treasure of scientific papers by codebreaking war hero Alan Turing fetched $625k at auction after being found in loft and ...
Alan Turing Honored As The Face Of The U.K.'s New 50-Pound Bank Note ... ," technical drawings of the British Bombe code-breaking machine and ticker tape depicting his birth date in binary ...
Alan Turing, a mathematician and ... (June, 23, 1912) in binary code, and a quote of his from 1949: “This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be. ...
Computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has become the face of the UK’s new £50 note. The note goes into circulation later this year and incorporates a number of design elements ...
Alan Turing, the 'Father of modern computing,' born on June 23, 1912, revolutionized technology with his Turing machine ...
By Charles Riley | CNN Business 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 visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain’s new £50 note.
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. At one point, the ...
It is a fitting tribute for the world's most pre-eminent codebreaker: a mysterious set of 1s and 0s emblazened across the new £50 note. As the Bank of England announced that Alan Turing would be ...