Honoring Alan Turing, "Father of Computer Science"

alphadogg writes "Google's Vint Cerf and others are spearheading celebrations in Silicon Valley and the UK this month to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth. 'The man challenged everyone's thinking,' says Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, in an interview with Network World. 'He was so early in the history of computing, and yet so incredibly visionary about it.' Cerf — who is president-elect of the Association for Computing Machinery and general chair of that organization's effort to celebrate the upcoming 100th anniversary of Turing's birth on June 23 — says that it's tough to overstate the importance of Turing's role in shaping the world of modern computing. Turing's accomplishments included his breakthrough Turing machine, cracking German military codes during WWII and designing a digital multiplier called the Automated Computing Machine."

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Fuck the British government

[pclminion]

Fuck them, and their stupid apology. Dead in his forties. Who knows what Turing might have accomplished. If God does indeed burn some people in Hell, homophobes surely must make up a large part of that population. Burn. Burn in agony for eternity. Evil worthless pieces of shit.

Re:And he killed a dragon once with a vacuum tube

[Marxist Hacker 42]

And yet, his genetic legacy was wasted because he was gay- robbing us of future geniuses.

Re:No, it was homophobia that killed him

[Marxist Hacker 42]

And for those of use who believe in evolution and genetics influencing ability, robbing the world of future geniuses by refusing to breed.