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Turing Manuscript Sells For $1 Million

Posted by samzenpus on from the compensation-game dept.

itwbennett writes A 56-page notebook manuscript by Alan Turing, the English mathematician considered to be the father of modern computer science, was sold at auction Monday for $1.025 million. Turing apparently wrote in the notebook in 1942 when he was working in Bletchley Park, England, trying to break German military code. “It gives us insight into how Alan Turing tackles problems. Sadly it shows us what he never got to finish,” said Cassandra Hatton, senior specialist at Bonhams.

4 of 44 comments (clear)

  1. Was it complete? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    n/t

  2. Museums? by Sarius64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I find it sad that this history for the world might be buried in some collector's safe instead of in a museum where our world society should be able to appreciate its significance.

  3. Re:Powers...One MILLION dollars. by MrBigInThePants · · Score: 2

    All currencies are virtual. Their value is not real but implied. Even gold.

    Gold was valuable because lots of people said it was - just like money.

  4. Remember his name [Re:Alternate headline] by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 2

    I hate that movie. I haven't seen it, but the advertising has put me off. The man is so important, but not once during any of the ads I saw for it, did they mention his name.

    There are many possible reasons to not like the movie, but this isn't one of them. The movie itself doesn't in any way hide his name.

    This, for example http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/n... or this http://www.slate.com/blogs/bro...
    might be reasonable excuses to not want to see the movie.

    --
    http://www.geoffreylandis.com