A collection of scientific papers from English mathematician, codebreaker, and father of computer science, Alan Turing, has sold for £465,400 (US$625,000) at auction after narrowly avoiding being shredded. The works include possibly the most famous theoretical paper in the history of computer science, On Computable Numbers, and many other works that "represent the foundations of computer science and modern digital computing" according to the auctioneers. Alan Turing is widely considered the father of computer science for his work on the theory of computers, which he developed in the 1930s, and his invention of the Turing machine, a model of computational...