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There is nothing remarkable about mathematicians' achievements going unrecognised in a wider world changed by their discoveries. The hidden history of Alan Turing is just a particularly bizarre ...

Refusing to choose between science and engineering? B: David, what is the result you are the most proud of? DH: Besides my five children and five grandchildren, in terms of scientific contribution, I ...

Regular expressions. Closure properties. Sequential machines and finite state transducers. State minimization. Chomsky hierarchy grammars, pushdown acceptors and linear bounded automata. Closure ...

Alan Turing is always in the news — for his place in science, but also for his 1952 conviction for having gay sex (illegal in Britain until 1967) and his suicide two years later. Former Prime Minister ...

As the anniversary of Alan Turing's birth in June approaches, the wider world is finally waking up to this great British mathematician, who was the world's first computer scientist. "He lived, as I ...

Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of ...