Prime Minister apologises over death of Alan Turing

Posted by markdoughty on Sep 11, 2009 12:50 PM EDT
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He was one of the unsung heroes of World War Two, a brilliant mathematician and code-breaker who led the technological fight against Hitler. Some 55 years too late, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologised for the prosecution and persecution that ended up killing Alan Turing.

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Toast to Turing jezuch 0 1,089 Sep 21, 2009 2:06 AM
Gee, missed that one. Bob_Robertson 45 2,393 Sep 15, 2009 9:49 PM
Turing not just a codebreaker or computer scientist montezuma 13 1,379 Sep 13, 2009 6:02 PM

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