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Scientists urge pardon of gay code-cracker Alan Turing

A picture released by Sherborne School on June 22, 2012 shows British mathematician Alan Turing at the school in Dorset, southwest England, aged 16 in 1928. (AFP)

Leading scientists including Stephen Hawking urged Britain on Friday to pardon World War II code-breaker Alan Turing, who committed suicide after he was convicted of the then crime of homosexuality. Often hailed as a father of modern computing whose code-cracking is credited with shortening World War II, Turing took his…

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Game makers to release Alan Turing Monopoly game

Life-sized Monopoly protest via Gwoeii / Shutterstock.com

Alan Turing, it turns out, had a theory about Monopoly. Fascinated by data patterns and algorithms the father of modern computing was convinced that there was a code-based tactic to playing and winning at the board game. When he discovered that the son of brilliant mathematician Max Newman had drawn…

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Scientists remember Turing, father of modern computers

Enigma decoding machine via AFP

Scientists will gather from Bangalore to Texas on Saturday to honour British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of the modern computer whose code-cracking is credited with shortening World War II. On the June 23 centenary of his birth in London, several cities will host conferences and exhibitions to celebrate the…

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