It’s high time to apologise for mistreating computer guru Alan Turing (Image: Time and Life Pictures / Getty)
Update 11 September 2009: The UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has today released a apologising for Alan Turing’s treatment.
SEVENTY years ago, a 27-year-old mathematician called Alan Turing arrived at Bletchley Park, 86 kilometres north of London and headquarters of the British operation, to help break the Nazis’ secret codes.
During his studies at the University of Cambridge and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Turing had laid the foundations for computer science by imagining a…
