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UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.This year marks the centenary of the birth of Turing, who ... 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's remarkable life and legacy celebrated in Science Museum exhibition Alan Turing was a code-breaker, a computer scientist, a mathematician, an ideas man. Alan Turing Saved My Life Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him 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 ... 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. 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. Alan Turing's 100th: 12 Celebratory Images From Across the Web Courtesy of Facebook, George Takei Code Breaker: Alan Turing's Life and Legacy, Science Museum, London The popular attitude to very brainy people is that they must be, by definition, odd: insular, distracted, almost certainly on the autistic spectrum. To the Science Museum's great credit, one outcome of its centenary tribute to the ultimately tragic maths genius Alan Turing is to humanise him. You emerge from this excellent free exhibition – financed by Google – with the sense that some small ... 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
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