[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It was ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help ...

During their studies, students encounter names like Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing, usually with the same mix of respect and mild resignation. One reads what they have proven, accepts it as impressive, ...

Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, codebreaker, and philosopher known for his Turing Test, an imitation game. He is best known, however, for his 1936 paper on the ...

The Theory of Computation explores the fundamental capabilities and limits of computing processes. It encompasses models such as finite automata, push-down machines and Turing machines, which ...

Computers don’t actually do anything. They don’t write, or play; they don’t even compute. Which doesn’t mean we can’t play with computers, or use them to invent, or make, or problem-solve. The new AI ...

The problems in the library can mostly be categorized into seed problems, advanced problems, and target problems. Seed problems are simple to state and thus make for good starting points of ...

Welcome to the beginning of a series of Prep Talk posts on AI and education! That said, I won’t be offended if you don’t get around to reading them. There is so much AI commentary out there that many ...

One of the most fundamental conundrums in the philosophy of mathematics is the question of whether mathematics was discovered by humans or invented by them. On one hand, it seems hard to argue that ...

A Turing machine is a theoretical model of a computing device that was first introduced by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing in 1936. Turing was interested in whether it was ...

When he invented Turing machines in 1936, Alan Turing also invented modern computing. In 1928, the German mathematicians David Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann proposed a question called the ...