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(Link at artsjournal.com) 'It’s 100 years since the birth of alan turing — the brilliant British polymath scientist whose work informs and pervades all of modern computing. Despite a criminally shortened life, he made significant contributions in many fields: helping to break the German ciphers in WWII, designing some of the first digital computers, defining the field of Artificial Intelligence and conducting research in mathematics, biology and physics.In fact he, more than anyone, can be said to be the father of the computer. So what was his great insight? What is it he did that shaped our world so profoundly?'
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André Croucamp wrote:
This weekend was the 100th anniversary of one of my intellectual heroes, Alan Turing. He is known as the breaker of the German’s Enigma code during the Second World War saving thousands of lives and making perhaps the single greatest individual contribution to ending the war. He is also one of the pioneers of the computer revolution. Tragically, he was arrested for being a homosexual and was...
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Alan Turing, born 100 years ago this week, was one of the scientific geniuses of the 20th century, a key codebreaker for Britain in the Second World War and a pioneer of computing. In 1952 he was prosecuted for being gay, chemically castrated and died two years later from cyanide poisoning. Read more:
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Close out LGBT Pride Day today by remembering the life and work of Alan Turing, an important Gay In History™ whose early work on computers helped to make the world what it is today. http://ryankiefer.me/post/25828975552/close-out-gay-pride-day-today-by-remembering-the
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