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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. Thank you by Haedrian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thank you mister Turing. Sorry about the whole anti-gay thing.

    Sent from my physical implementation of Turing Machine.

    1. Re:Thank you by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It was therefore right (in the sense of the community he was working in/for) to get rid of him.

      You are either ignorant of what happened to Turing, or a total asshole.

      Turing was not just let go from an intelligence related job, which would be bad enough. He was convicted of "indecency" and made to undergo chemical castration via estrogen injections. There is nothing "right" about what happened to him.

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  2. Re:And Google forgot this... by Hazel+Bergeron · · Score: 5, Interesting

    However.