Pixelated Semantics

Remembering Turing

Not to disparage the veterans currently in the pubic eye, but if your eyes are glazing over with the rewriting of World War 2 history in the name of remembering D-day, then perhaps you can spare a moment for Alan Turing. His untimely suicide 50 years ago ended a prodigious career that truly changed the world. Turing's experiments helped "the Allies" win World War II by deciphering encrypted German communications using valve-driven computers and acoustic memory chambers. His conceptual and practical work on Computing blazed the trail for today's plethora of digital technologies - without Turing, you would not be reading this. His homosexuality was illegal in Britain at the time, and resulted in denial of work and lack of recognition for his achievements; in that sense he was also a trail-blazer for Gay Rights, as he made the very brave decision to cease living rather than to live a falsehood for the sake of appearances. Vale.

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