Two researchers in the Netherlands helmed the construction of a LEGO Turing machine, a quirky manifestation of the classic computer science concept first devised by Alan Turing in 1936. The device, ...

[Credit: Jeroen van den Bosand, Davy Landman] How do you mark the birthday of Alan Turing, the “Father of Computers”? You could make a Google Doodle, or you could ...

The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known ...

LEGO blocks and pieces have been used to recreate the original Turing Machine to honour the achievements of its creator. Alan Turing was a brilliant, British mathematician who is widely considered as ...

Ambitious hobbyists can put all kinds of fascinating projects into practice with colorful, clamping bricks – now two have been added. A Czech Lego team has recreated a fully functional "McLaren P1" ...

2012 is the 100-year anniversary of [Alan Turing]’s birth, and to celebrate the centennial, [Jeroen] and [Davy] over at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in The Netherlands built a Turing machine out of ...

In the world of technology, having one of your inventions rendered in Lego form is the equivalent of a musician being parodied by Weird Al -- it's a sign you've truly made it and tribute to your ...

Were he still alive today, Alan Turing would be celebrating his 100th birthday. To mark the occasion, and Alan Turing Year 2012, two Dutch software engineers created a Turing machine completely out of ...

Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman honor the computer scientist Alan Turing by recreating his calculating machine with LEGOs. Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and ...

Everyone reading this post can thank Alan Turing for the privilege. Turing is widely considered the father of computer science: he cracked Nazi crypto-codes during World War II and helped design the ...

Alan Turing's 100th birthday has passed. But you can celebrate it forever. This past week, Google open sourced the code for the animated Turing Machine logic puzzle it posted to its homepage in ...

How do you mark the birthday of , the "Father of Computers"? You could make a , or you could to commemorate what would be his 100th birthday. Jeroen van den Bosand and Davy Landman did just that, and ...