ENGLAND –The Web site of a once secret little post office is to close in January 2017. This will be the last chance to view the “little pieces of art and history” produced over 20 years at Bletchley Park celebrating the work of the Alan Turing and the code breakers. Originally the undercover mailroom with…
LGBT History Month Special Feature Q&A with Sir Dermot Turing, biographer and nephew of WWII codebreaker Alan Turing BY THOM SENZEE Everyone called him Professor. But Alan Turing, the almost universally recognized father of artificial intelligence and modern computer science, was never actually a professor. Yet who would begrudge Turing’s esteemed nephew, Sir Dermot Turing,…
dvd of the week Alan Turing was the gay British man who broke the Nazi codes during World War II and more or less invented the computer. Despite his key role in winning the war, Turing was arrested for his homosexuality and forced to undergo chemical castration to avoid prison; he killed himself after a…
Today, relatives of Alan Turing, the subject of the Oscar-award winning film The Imitation Game, delivered signatures from the Change.org petition calling for the more than 49,000 men who were convicted under the UK’s now revoked anti-gay laws to be pardoned like Turing was to British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street in London. Rachel…
Let’s get this out of the way: Despite what you may have heard, read on Twitter, or seen ranted about on Facebook, The Imitation Game is a not a homophobic whitewash of Alan Turing, the gay British man who broke the Nazi codes during World War II and more or less invented the computer. Despite…
Writer Dean Atta expresses his thoughts on the recent royal pardon given to Alan Turing, the World War II British code-breaker who was subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, in a poem for Pink News. I beg your pardon? Alan Turing’s pardon comes sixty years too late Our country showed him no love then, just…
World War II British code-breaker Alan Turing, who was subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has been pardoned by the Queen. The royal pardon, under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, is effective today and comes nearly 60 years after Turing committed suicide. Turing’s code-breaking work is considered by many to have helped change the…
