Today, Google celebrates what would have been Alan Turing’s 100th birthday with an interactive HTML5 logo that simulates the Turing Machine. Turing, persecuted because he was gay, was a wartime ...
His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II. Yet he died as a criminal for his homosexuality. Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose ...
Alan Turing, a British code-breaker during World War II who was later subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he committed suicide.