Alan Turing

...punching one of them in the face before kneeing him in the groin after being attacked as he planned a live broadcast from the statue of Alan Turing in Sackville Gardens, following Gordon Brown's decision to grant the computer pioneer a...

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...codes during the Second World War, was convicted of "gross indecency" after acknowledging to police he'd had sex with a man who later robbed him. It's the same charge that brought down Oscar Wilde. He was given the option of jail or chemical...

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...keep Michael Dell, for instance, out of it). I'm focusing on use today, not in the past. Alan Turing, for instance, doesn't qualify, because he was involved in the development of modern computers, and because the Turing Test is also at this...

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...an apple laced with cyanide after being convicted of gross indecency. The shame meant Turing was dropped from sensitive government work. Turing's Test, a Made In Manchester (MIM) production, examines the scientist's legacy in the field...

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...back then." One of the talented codebreakers who decrypted the German Enigma code during World War II has died. Shaun Wylie worked with Alan Turing and became head of the "crib" subsection, which was on the lookout for repeated words or...

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...Oct 2009 He was teaching at Wellington College in December 1940 when a letter arrived from the mathematician Alan Turing, whom he had met in America, inviting Wylie to work with him at Britain's codebreaking centre. Two months later he...

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...things we have to be thankful to Alan Turing for and I'm delighted to have been given the opportunity to play him in Turing's Test. " Turing's Test will be downloadable from The Independent website from Saturday 24 October at...

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...Turing, the great cryptographer and founding father of computer science, picked up a young man, who subsequently burgled Turing's house. Turing reported the crime, and the sexual relationship came to mind. Turing was arrested for gross...

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...as 'horrible' and 'humiliating'. Even more significantly perhaps, Turing felt - yet again - that he'd been let down by people he trusted. When his housekeeper found his body, it was assumed to be suicide. Others have hinted that he could...

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...also due to the estimated 100,000 British men who suffered similar treatment. "Singling out Turing just because he is famous is wrong", he said. Alan Turing was given experimental chemical castration as a "treatment" and his security...

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