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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:If he is the grandfather... by grub · · Score: -1, Troll


    Turing and his life-partner adopted a boy. You didn't know?

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  2. Re:Thank you by operagost · · Score: -1, Troll
    You are either a troll, or simply have poor reading comprehension. What happened to Turing was, unfortunately, expected due to the laws in effect in the UK at the time. The GP poster tried to point out that he was not sympathetic with the words you actually quoted (emphasis mine), "It was therefore right (in the sense of the community he was working in/for)".

    Don't feel too badly about your mistake; you're still not as foolish as the people who modded you up to +5.

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