Alan Turing
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Justice minister hails ‘momentous day’ as so-called Turing’s law receives royal assent, but critics say move does not go far enough
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With technology developing at an increasingly rapid pace, as we head into 2017, we ask: will AI machines surpass the human race?
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Charismatic portrayal of a giant intellect who was unable to lie brings fresh tragedy to the Alan Turing biography industry
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Researchers restore 1951 recording generated on machine built by computer scientist famous for breaking Enigma code
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It was a pleasure to help judge the AI programs attempting to pass the Turing test and win this year’s Loebner prize, but strangely unnerving
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Eye-catching design didn’t begin with Apple, as a new, digitally-aided photography series illustrates
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Robert Hannigan says archaic attitudes persisted for decades after Turing was hounded over his sexuality
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Science Kombat is a new browser-based game that lets some of history’s most famous scientists duke it out in an epic grudge match
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Social historian best known for his work on the Victorian era who played a key role in the foundation of Sussex University
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Only Ed Atkins’ crowd-sourced, poetry-spewing avatar shows signs of life in this clunky exhibition inspired by Alan Turing’s test to see if machines can think
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François Hollande has ordered the release of Jacqueline Sauvage using a pardon – it’s a useful tool, but the idea of politicians overturning court decisions is uncomfortable
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The Perth YouTube star talks about sharing his life on the internet, the legacy of Alan Turing and why Australian marriage equality is inevitable
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Above the Arts, London
The late Snoo Wilson let his imagination run wild in this rough and ready absurdist delve into the brilliant mind of the troubled codebreaker
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‘My job was to sort incoming signals. I worked at a machine like a typewriter: coded messages came in all the time’
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Previously unpublished correspondence shows how wartime codebreaker longed for permanent relationship
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Labour leadership contender’s proposal would mean up to 50,000 convictions for acts that would be not be illegal today could be quashed
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Rare example of an Enigma machine, used by Nazi Germany to send coded messages during second world war, expected to fetch £70,000
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Composer’s new piece Sentences will focus on wartime codebreaker’s work – and it will not be The Imitation Game with stirring violins
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The US composer on obsessive collecting, being jetlagged at Bletchley Park and his love of the New Yorker
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Only 65 of 49,000 prosecuted under outdated laws have so far had their records quashed
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Paper thought to date from 1942 details Enigma codebreaker’s work on foundations of mathematical notation and computer science
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Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing was posthumously pardoned for gross indecency, but thousands of British men’s lives are still blighted by similar charges. Their primary offence? Being gay. We hear their stories
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Liberal Democrats pledge to pardon 49,000 men convicted before 1967 in any future coalition, while campaigners say warning about paedophiles is an excuse
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