Alan Turing

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Staff at Alan Turing Institute speak out after four men given top roles
Employees say there is a trend of limited diversity among the senior scientific leadership at the London centre for AI

Dan Milmo Global technology editor

11, Mar, 2024 @6:00 AM

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If you’re raging that 'Netflix made Alexander the Great gay', it’s time to learn some LGBTQ+ history | Matt Cain
For centuries, LGBTQ+ lives have been wiped from the record – February represents a chance to celebrate our contribution, says novelist Matt Cain

Matt Cain

13, Feb, 2024 @2:24 PM

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Alan Turing: A Musical Biography review – ode to the codebreaker is bafflingly dull
The compelling life of the world-changing mathematician and logician is somehow rendered unremarkable in a drab musical

Arifa Akbar

10, Jan, 2024 @12:11 PM

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Race to AI: the origins of artificial intelligence, from Turing to ChatGPT
Today’s poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines

Ian Sample Science editor

28, Oct, 2023 @11:05 AM

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LGBTQ+ military charity backs proposal for Alan Turing statue on fourth plinth
Trafalgar Square monument would stand in ‘stark contrast’ to treatment codebreaker received in his lifetime

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

24, Jul, 2023 @4:00 AM

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The danger of blindly embracing the rise of AI | Letters
Letters: Readers express their hopes, and fears, about recent developments in artificial intelligence chatbots

03, Apr, 2023 @4:52 PM

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Due recognition for Poland’s codebreaking pioneers | Letter
Letter: A memorial at Bletchley Park honours their contribution to winning the war, says Michael Saunders

28, Dec, 2022 @5:36 PM

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New musical tells the story of wartime hero Alan Turing
Edinburgh Fringe show sets out to tell the tale of the code-breaker whose crucial work on German cyphers helped win the second world war

Vanessa Thorpe

06, Aug, 2022 @4:00 PM

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Intelligence Factory exhibition sheds light on secret Bletchley Park operation
Top secret second world war code-breaking centre in Buckinghamshire was the forerunner of GCHQ

Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

22, Apr, 2022 @3:42 PM

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Pure folly: Turing family join fight to save ‘blue-skies maths’ from neglect
As hard-pressed universities axe abstract study, the codebreaker’s great niece and top mathematicians are fighting back

Michael Savage

11, Jul, 2021 @8:50 AM

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How to slow down in a fast-moving world | Brief letters
Brief letters: Olga Tokarczuk | Flags | Music festivals | Alan Turing | Art

Letters

29, Mar, 2021 @4:17 PM

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New £50 note featuring Alan Turing to enter circulation in June
Polymer banknote pays tribute to scientist who cracked Enigma code during second world war

Rupert Jones

25, Mar, 2021 @7:00 AM

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