... to Alan Turing as a direct result of the petition HERE. I know it doesn't make him any less dead, his life any less tragic or his treatment any less appalling, but it still feels important to me.

If only they'd had the balls to do it at the time.

 

:-&

no much, and way too late, but good on Brown for doing the right thing (as many before him could have done)

so - \o/ yay \o/ - nice one Brown*






*not I comment I make very often

I approve of this. An incredibly important figure both to the war effort and to modern computing and it's only fitting that apologies are made for the appalling way we treated a great man.

Jolly good. I signed the petition, and in doing so realised that I should probably apologise for all the times I've implied that Peter Boughton would have trouble passing a Turing test.

 

 

 

Sorry Alan.

Poignant and fitting.

 

Possibly too little, far too late, but at least it's recognition. Something more substantial should be put up to mark him though, not just for his contribution to the war effort but to computing as a whole.

 

Here's to the Turing Erection.

Apart from the statue(s), road named after him, blue plaque and new uni building named after him?

I know that there's a statue in Manchester. But I was thinking of something closer to civilisation. Or, failing that, in the centre of London where people will actually see it. And prominent. Westminster or Trafalgar Square.

 

miffle

Ooph, no-you-damned-nothern-hating-bastards-we-invented-the-steam-jenny-we-did-nononononono. *shakes jowls side to side very quickly* NO.

 

Actually, where was Mr. Turing from?

 

<quick google search reveals...>

 

He was conceived in India and was brought up in London. Ergo, the statue(s) should be there.

Sodom, I think.

Was it not Gomorra?

(Excvuse spelling. Closest the blackberry spellcheck got was Camera)

At least it wasn't gonorrhea :/

Yeah, that's a right shithole, that place.