Managers do not understand computer geeks or what they do. So they sack them and pay the consequences.
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.
In 48 hours it would be June 23, 2012: the 100th birthday of Alan Turing. (Sadly, Turing did not live to see even his 50th. In 1952 his honesty and integrity led him to acknowledge when talking to the police that a young man
Bruce Sterling gave a speech at the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) on the eve of the Alan Turing Centenary, and delivered a provocative, witty and important talk on the Turing
He broke the Nazis' code. He pioneered artificial intelligence. And he died a victim of bigotry.
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