ANCHOR INTRO: Benedict Cumberbatch has played a dragon as well as Sherlock Holmes. This Christmas, KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando says you can find him playing the mathematician who helped break ...

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The Imitation Game proves that a ripping true story can survive even the Oscar-bait effect. This is a profile of Alan Turing: British mathematician, code-breaker of Germany’s Enigma device (a feat of ...

One of the last Enigma coding machines that the Nazis used to send encrypted messages during the Second World War has sold at auction. The device was valued between £50,000 and £70,000 but sold for a ...

There’s a tension at the heart of “The Imitation Game” that’s never completely reconciled. On one side, we have the story of Alan Turing’s work during World War II, of his breaking the Nazi’s Enigma ...

At Sunday's 87th Academy Awards, one of the nominees for Best Picture is "The Imitation Game," which tells the story of Alan Turing, the British mathematician who, during World War II, managed to ...

There’s a tension at the heart of “The Imitation Game” that’s never completely reconciled. On one side, we have the story of Alan Turing’s work during World War II, of his breaking the Nazi’s Enigma ...

There's a tension at the heart of "The Imitation Game" that's never completely reconciled. On one side, we have the story of Alan Turing's work during World War II, of his breaking the Nazi's Enigma ...

Born June 23, 1912, legendary English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst Alan Turing is best-known today for successfully cracking “the Enigma code,” a sophisticated cipher used to ...

The Oscar-nominated film "The Imitation Game" may fudge some of the facts and amp up the drama to appeal to Hollywood audiences, but there's still a lot the film gets right about the Allied effort to ...

Considering how the subject of “The Imitation Game,” British scientist Alan Turing, was the creator of the proto-computer, it’s only fitting that Norwegian director Morten Tyldum is using one of the ...