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Dr Julian Huppert MP: Alan Turing should be on a banknote Alan Turing was crucial to the defeat of Nazism in the Second World War, and we need to making amends for the way he was treated in the years following, writes Dr Julian Huppert MP. Alan Turing: hero The centenary of Alan Turing's birth should be the spur for a permanent memorial in the heart of our capital, says Chris Middleton Alan Turing's remarkable life and legacy celebrated in Science Museum exhibition Alan Turing was a code-breaker, a computer scientist, a mathematician, an ideas man. Kasparov versus Turing (w/ Video) (Phys.org) -- For the first time in public, Mr. Kasparov played a match against Turing's chess program live on stage at The University of Manchester's Alan Turing Centenary Conference. Alan Turing recalled as computer pioneer Alan Turing recalled as computer pioneer Alan Turing's was a once-in-a-generation mind, ticking with mathematical insights that helped end a war and usher in the computing era. [...] rarely has a figure so brilliant and tragic lived outside of novels. [...] the British war hero and godfather of computer science died at the age of 41, in an apparent suicide following his criminal conviction for ... Alan Turing Saved My Life Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him Turing Archive Director Questions Alan Turing Suicide Report That Alan Turing committed suicide is widely accepted as fact. Now, an anonymous reader writes, "According to Professor Jack Copeland, director of the The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, 'The coroner [in Turing's case] didn't really investigate the evidence at all, he just jumped to the conclusion that he committed suicide. He seems to have been very biased from the statements in ... Alan Turing - Life and Tragic Death of Enigma and Computing Hero Father of computing, who would have been 100 on 23 June, cracked Nazi's Enigma code at Bletchley Park and studied artificial intelligence. Did Alan Turing Really Commit Suicide? The BBC reports on a Turing scholar's recent claims that by today's standard of evidence, there's reason to doubt the commonly-held belief that the famed computing pioneer committed suicide in response to government persecution over his homosexuality. To be clear, he does not claim to have disproved the suicide theory -- only that the cyanide poisoning that killed Turing could well have been an ... Google Doodle honors Alan Turing It's "code"-your-own doodle day on the Google home page as the search giant celebrates the 100th birthday on Saturday of Alan Turing - the English mathematician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist - with an interactive doodle.
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