Badass Birthday
On this date, in 1912, in London England, Alan Turing was born.
Alan Turing was a mathematician, scientist, logician, cryptanalyst and philospher. During World War II, he played a crucial role in dechiper the Germans codes which greatly benefited the Allies. After the war, he made groundbreaking contribuations to the field of theoretical computer science through the concepts of algorythims and computation he made for his Tuning Machine. Using what he learned there, he helped design the Automatic Computing Engine which was used to help create the Manchester computers. He is widely considered to be father fo Theoretical Computer Science.
It is apporpriate that we discuss him now, because Alan Turing was gay. In 1952, he was convicted of homosexual acts and, as an alternative to prison, was given what was essentially chemical castration. In 1954, at the age of 41 he died of cyanide poisoning, widely considered to be suicide.
In 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made on official public apology for "the appalling way Turing was treated". In 2013, Queen Elizabeth II granted him a pardon. And in 2017, The Alan Turing Law retroactively pardoned all men convicted in the past of homosexual acts.
Despite all the did to defeat the Nazis, and all he contributed to the advent of computers, he was treated the same offensive and obscene way all gays were back then. And that's why people like him of the past, and what happened to him, needs to be known today.
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