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Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the your-machines-confound-me dept.

Blacklaw writes "Today marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a noted polymath and cryptanalyst who is regarded by many as being the grandfather of modern computing."

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  1. Re:Thank you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey, in the US we did the same thing with our World War II scientist-hero, only we started calling Oppenheimer a "communist" instead.

    Oppenheimer and Turing won that fucking war, and this is what they got for it.

  2. Re:Polymath? by Gandalf_the_Beardy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Someone who is skilled in multiple different disciplines like Leonardo da Vinci, (Painting, sculpture, engineer, physicist, astronomer, anatomist, geologist, architect) or perhaps Jefferson, (author, lawyer, musician, botanist, diplomat)

  3. Re:Thank you by Haedrian · · Score: 3, Informative

    English public schools are and always have been full of faggotry.

    Not sure whether you chose that word by accident - but "Fagging" (same root) was common in english public schools and it had nothing to do with homosexuality.

    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fagging