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Original ARM developer Sophie Wilson nominated for European Inventor Award
Computing pioneer Sophie Wilson, who helped design the Acorn Micro-Computer and the original ARM processor, has been nominated for the European Inventor Award 2013 for her contributions to technological, social and economic progress.
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Computer History Museum to induct Pixar co-founder into Hall of Fellows
The Computer History Museum on Monday announced its Class of 2013 includes Ed Catmull, a computer scientist and Pixar co-founder, along with two PC pioneers: Harry Huskey and Robert W. Taylor.
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Gove adds Computer Science to English Baccalaureate
Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has announced that computer science will sit alongside traditional science subjects and be added to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc).
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£2.4 million raised just in time for Bletchley Park restoration
The Bletchley Park Trust has got the go-ahead to start restoring its famous code-breaking huts and build a new visitor centre after it successfully raised £2.4 million in matched funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, which is releasing £5 million.
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Alan Turing - Codebreaking, computing and bigotry
New Alan Turing exhibition at the Science Museum celebrates the 100th birthday of Britain's computer pioneer and features working Pilot Ace computer, Enigma cipher machines and even a piece of Comet jet fuselage wreckage.
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Secret wartime projects drove 'incredible' advances, says Vint Cerf
The Enigma cypher machine used by the German military in World War II is still a tough nut to crack today. The total number of ways it can be configured for every letter is around 150 million million million. That's enough to keep it beyond the reach of all but the most determined of brute force attacks.
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GCHQ releases secret mathematical papers by Alan Turing
Pioneer computer scientist and code breaker's notes finally declassified
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Turing Award 2012 goes to UCLA professor Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner.
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Turing Test opera to embark on UK tour
The Turing Test, developed by mathematician and legendary wartime codebreaker Alan Turing to test a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour, is the subject of an opera by Scottish composer Julian Wagstaff, which will embark on a UK tour in October 2012.
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Alan Turing papers expected to fetch £500,000 at auction
A collection of Alan Turing's papers is set to fetch up to £500,000 at a Christie's auction later this month.
