Hackernews posts about Alan Turing

Alan Turing is a British mathematician, computer scientist, and logician who made significant contributions to codebreaking and artificial intelligence before his tragic death in 1954.

1. Alan Turing’s 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf] (archive.computerhistory.org)
   234 points by lisper almost 2 years ago | 57 comments
2. Alan Turing's "Delilah" project (spectrum.ieee.org)
   208 points by pseudolus over 1 year ago | 25 comments
3. What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute? (www.chalmermagne.com)
   86 points by alexicon over 1 year ago | 90 comments
4. Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis (www.theguardian.com)
   62 points by glutamate about 1 year ago | 87 comments
5. The Lost Story of Alan Turing's "Delilah" Project (2025) (spectrum.ieee.org)
   38 points by asdefghyk 3 months ago | 1 comments
6. 15-Year-Old Alan Turing's Notebook Summary of Relativity Theory (turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk)
   26 points by tylerdane about 2 months ago | 6 comments
7. Alan Turing: Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable' (2012) (www.bbc.com)
   23 points by wslh almost 2 years ago | 4 comments
8. 'A camp environment': why Alan Turing fatefully told police he was gay (www.theguardian.com)
   12 points by ndsipa_pomu over 1 year ago | 7 comments
9. Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of 'playful, funny, cheeky' side (www.theguardian.com)
   8 points by defrost about 2 months ago | discuss
10. Alan Turing papers saved from shredder could fetch £150k (www.theguardian.com)
    7 points by bookofjoe over 1 year ago | discuss
11. Alan Turing's birthday today – born 1912 in London
    6 points by njjv about 1 year ago | 1 comments
12. Alan Turing papers saved from shredder could fetch £150k (www.theguardian.com)
    6 points by ColinWright over 1 year ago | discuss
13. Alan Turing's biggest AI assumption may have been wrong – ScienceDaily (www.sciencedaily.com)
    5 points by ulrischa about 2 months ago | 1 comments
14. Wartime codebreaker Alan Turing's scientific papers sell for £465,000 at auction (www.theguardian.com)
    4 points by robaato over 1 year ago | discuss
15. Where You See a Fancy Fish, Engineers See Alan Turing's Math (www.nytimes.com)
    3 points by bookofjoe 10 months ago | 1 comments
16. Where You See a Fancy Fish, Engineers See Alan Turing's Math (www.nytimes.com)
    3 points by marojejian 11 months ago | 1 comments
17. Alan Turing papers expected to sell for thousands, narrowly missing the shredder (www.chemistryworld.com)
    3 points by crescit_eundo over 1 year ago | 1 comments
18. UK's Alan Turing Institute launches redundancy consultation process (www.theguardian.com)
    3 points by cen4 almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
19. Alan Turing's 'Delilah' papers saved for the nation (www.kings.cam.ac.uk)
    3 points by sohkamyung over 1 year ago | discuss
20. Alan Mathison Turing – IT History Society (ithistory.org)
    2 points by rbanffy 3 months ago | 1 comments
21. AI artwork of Alan Turing sells for $1M (www.bbc.com)
    2 points by cloudking almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
22. 1966: Alan Turing's Machines – Mathematics in Action – BBC Archive (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 3 months ago | discuss
23. Alan Turing's Remarkable, Nearly-Forgotten Voice Encryption Device (hackaday.com)
    2 points by mdp2021 3 months ago | discuss
24. I left the Alan Turing Institute to join 'game-changer' AI lab (www.thetimes.com)
    2 points by petethomas 4 months ago | discuss
25. Where You See a Fancy Fish, Engineers See Alan Turing's Math (www.nytimes.com)
    2 points by mikhael 11 months ago | discuss
26. Alan Turing on Embodied Intelligence (rodneybrooks.com)
    2 points by chmaynard 12 months ago | discuss
27. Alan Turing on Embodied Intelligence (rodneybrooks.com)
    2 points by FromTheArchives 12 months ago | discuss
28. Alan Turing Institute accused of 'toxic' culture (www.thetimes.com)
    2 points by petethomas about 1 year ago | discuss
29. Alan Turing's scientific papers sell for 'record' £465,000 (www.independent.ie)
    2 points by Bluestein over 1 year ago | discuss
30. Saved Alan Turing papers sold at auction for £465k (www.bbc.co.uk)
    2 points by mellosouls over 1 year ago | discuss