In 1950, famed London scientist Alan Turing, considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, published a paper that put forth that very question. But as quickly as he asked the question, he ...

The title of "First Computer" is a matter of historical debate, as its invention was a multi-step process rather than a single event. While Charles Babbage is often credited for the concept of the ...

A computer program named "Eugene Goostman" has convinced a third of human judges into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy, becoming the first machine to pass the Turing test, Hannah Furness of The ...

Sir Winston Churchill said Alan Turing’s breaking of German codes for secret messages shortened the Second World War by two years. Computer scientists credit Turing with formulating the philosophical ...

In 1950, Alan Turing published “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, one of the first papers on artificial intelligence. But theory alone wasn’t enough. AI needed powerful computing. And at ...

Alan Turing didn’t live to see his 100th birthday. Yet thanks to his pioneering work in computer science, cryptanalysis and artificial intelligence, his immortality is assured. And as Andrew Hodges ...

The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries of innovation. Many people assume a single inventor and a specific date, ...