In 1950, famed London scientist Alan Turing, considered one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, published a paper that put forth that very question. But as quickly as he asked the question, he ...

The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries of innovation. Many people assume a single inventor and a specific date, ...

While the Dartmouth workshop in 1956 is the official birthplace of AI, it wasn’t the first time that people had thought about building thinking machines. However, without access to computers, there ...

Alan Turing didn’t live to see his 100th birthday. Yet thanks to his pioneering work in computer science, cryptanalysis and artificial intelligence, his immortality is assured. And as Andrew Hodges ...