It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.

In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies played by Alan Turing's Mark II computer. The ...

Detail of a rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The model is similar to the Mark II, on which the first recorded computer music was played. (photo by Alan ...

But now a different award has become the latest sign that the revolution may be quantized, which is to say its information will be protected using quantum technology. On Wednesday, a Canadian and U.S.

For as much as we know about the pioneering British computer scientist Alan Turing, we know relatively little about his death. Turing was found dead at his home in 1954, two years after he was outed ...