Pardon for Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing

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Posted By: Sorin Mustaca August 28, 2009

My friend John Graham-Cumming has started a petition to force the UK government to officially ask a post-mortem pardon to Alan Turing, the father of the modern computers and the breaker of the nazis’ Enigma code.
Here is an interview about this topic.

This post has been inspired by John’s post here.


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1 Comment on "Pardon for Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing"

  1. msorin | September 11, 2009 at 14:03 |

    UPDATE: John has managed to gather more than 10000 signatures for his petition. As a result, the UK prime minister Mr. Gordon Brown has issues an official apology for the way Alan Turin was treated. More here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8249792.stm

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