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Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Alan Turing?

Posted by Soulskill on from the martin-lawrence-not-available dept.

mikejuk writes "2012 is the one hundredth anniversary of Alan Turing's birth, with many celebration events being planned around the world. This week Warner Bros outbid other companies for the script of a biopic based on Turing's life. The script for The Imitation Game, by first-time screenwriter Graham Moore and based in turn on the biography by Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma, was snapped up by Warner Bros in a 7-figure deal. Right now the leading candidate to portray Turing is Leonardo DiCaprio."

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  1. Turing is way overrated. by jensend · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why do people remember Turing rather than Church and Post, both of whom developed their ideas independently of Turing and beat him to publication by quite a while (though Post's was submitted after Turing's) and both of whom made many further important contributions to mathematical logic and computational theory while Turing did not?

    Why do people continue to erroneously associate Turing with the Colossus computer while Tommy Flowers is totally unremembered? Why has Turing's work at Bletchley Park etc overshadowed the efforts of Zuse, Shannon, Stibitz, Atanasoff, Eckert, Mauchly, and others whose efforts did so much more to make general-purpose computing a reality?

    I can only see one answer: Turing was gay, and lots of people feel it's important to idolize homosexuals' contributions.