Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Alan Turing: Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable'

Alan Turing would have turned 100 this week, an event that would have, no doubt, been greeted with all manner of pomp -- the centennial of a man whose.

A professor has claimed that Alan Turing, who was widely understood to have committed suicide through ingestion of cyanide, may have in fact died accidentally.

Saturday was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a British mathematician who oversaw the Ultra code-breaking project during World War II.

It's no exaggeration to say that Alan Turing was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. Regarded as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, he also made ground-breaking contributions to the

Jon 'Maddog' Hall has come out gay, saying he wanted to honor the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birthday.

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