John Graham-Cumming

...Manchester Mark 1, one of the first computers. John Graham-Cumming, the British computer scientist who started the campaign, has also asked the Queen to give Turing a posthumous knighthood. Turing has no surviving family. Graham-Cumming...

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...so they returned to Maida Vale in West London in time for his birth. They left Turing and his elder brother John in England while they resumed their lives in India. The boys then shuttled between relatives and boarding schools until 1926,...

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"It is atrocious that we don't recognise this man and the only way to do so is to apologise to him. This man was a national treasure and we hounded him to his death," Graham-Cumming said, adding that he thought of Turing as a war hero. ®...

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...to reduce his libido A petition organised by John Graham-Cumming had called for the apology, which came hours after New Scientist published Graham-Cumming's article on the subject (12 September, p 24). Turing died in 1954 after...

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...War II code-breaker who was later prosecuted for being gay. The apology came following an online petition started by computer scientist John Graham-Cumming, author of The Geek Atlas. Graham-Cumming says Turing is one of the great figures of...

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...said. "We're sorry, you deserved so much better." Brown's apology follows an online petition, started by computer scientist John Graham-Cumming, that drew more than 30,000 supporters. Graham-Cumming said Turing "was thinking about what...

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...Turing to suicide. Regrettable? Not officially. Programmer John Graham-Cumming has launched a petition on a government website to apologize for prosecuting Turing for homosexuality. It took a full 13 years after Turing killed himself...

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...Sackville Gardens which was unveiled in 2001. "I kept reading about potential funding cuts at Bletchley Park and I suddenly felt really mad about it," said Mr Graham-Cumming. "I felt Turing was getting overlooked as being a British...

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...gay rights campaigners said. Computer programmer Dr John Graham-Cumming, who organised the online petition for Turing, said he had been surprised by the support he had received and the government's response. "I wanted Alan Turing to be...

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