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UK to finally pardon famed code breaker, ‘convicted homosexual’ Alan Turing
Nearly 60 years after his death, officials in the United Kingdom plan to formally pardon famed British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing who was chemically castrated after being convicted in 1952 of the crime of homosexuality.
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Famed gay computer scientist Alan Turing honored with Monopoly edition
BLETCHLEY PARK, U.K. — Alan Turing, a mathematician and World War II codebreaker widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, and who committed suicide in 1954 after being sentenced to chemical castration for being gay, has been honored with his own edition of the popular board game Monopoly.
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Remembering Alan Turing, prolific computer scientist, ‘convicted homosexual’
Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, a brilliant British mathematician and computer scientist who was highly influential in the creating what would become the modern computer, and is most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes during World War II.