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UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.This year marks the centenary of the birth of Turing, who ... Dr Julian Huppert MP: Alan Turing should be on a banknote Alan Turing was crucial to the defeat of Nazism in the Second World War, and we need to making amends for the way he was treated in the years following, writes Dr Julian Huppert MP. Alan Turing: hero The centenary of Alan Turing's birth should be the spur for a permanent memorial in the heart of our capital, says Chris Middleton Alan Turing's remarkable life and legacy celebrated in Science Museum exhibition Alan Turing was a code-breaker, a computer scientist, a mathematician, an ideas man. Alan Turing Saved My Life Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him News Summary: UK lawmakers call for Turing tribute THE HONORS: A group of British lawmakers wants World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote. Kasparov versus Turing (w/ Video) (Phys.org) -- For the first time in public, Mr. Kasparov played a match against Turing's chess program live on stage at The University of Manchester's Alan Turing Centenary Conference. Turing Archive Director Questions Alan Turing Suicide Report That Alan Turing committed suicide is widely accepted as fact. Now, an anonymous reader writes, "According to Professor Jack Copeland, director of the The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, 'The coroner [in Turing's case] didn't really investigate the evidence at all, he just jumped to the conclusion that he committed suicide. He seems to have been very biased from the statements in ... Google Doodle honors Alan Turing It's "code"-your-own doodle day on the Google home page as the search giant celebrates the 100th birthday on Saturday of Alan Turing - the English mathematician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist - with an interactive doodle. Alan Turing - Life and Tragic Death of Enigma and Computing Hero Father of computing, who would have been 100 on 23 June, cracked Nazi's Enigma code at Bletchley Park and studied artificial intelligence.
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