Germany's top-secret World War II code was called "Enigma." The Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code was very much an enigma himself. Anthony Mason this morning helps decode the ...

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 fitting, ...

[Sam Greydanus] created a neural network that can encode and decode messages just as Enigma did. For those who don’t know, the Enigma machine was most famously used by the Germans during World War II ...

An Enigma machine that was used by the Nazis to encrypt secret messages during World War II is up for auction later this week. “This machine being auctioned was designed by the German Navy and was ...

Papers written by Alan Turing during his famous work breaking the Germans' "Enigma" code have been found being used as crude insulation in a hut where the pioneering computer scientist and ...

Alan Turing’s lost notebook, in which he worked on the foundations of modern computer science, was sold for a whopping $1,025,000 at the Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale at Bonhams, which took place ...

Experts have uncovered a rare artifact from World War II, an Enigma machine, used by the Nazis to prevent the Allies from learning their secrets. The discovery, made by a diving team for the World ...

Alan Turing achieved more in the space of a few decades than anyone could hope to achieve in a lifetime. His ability to imagine the unimaginable and put these lofty theories down on paper, and then ...