Alan Turing

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/15/2019
  

  Alan Turing, Computing Genius And WWII Hero, To Be On U.K.'s New 50-Pound Note

  It will include a quote from Turing: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4-21-16
  

  Alan Turing was one of many persecuted by Whitehall for their sexuality

  by Dan Lomas

  While certainly welcome, the focus on Turing’s story has overshadowed the plight of other individuals in similar circumstances.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  2-25-15
  

  Alan Turing’s family demands the UK pardon its convicted homosexuals

  The famed mathematician and codebreaker received a royal pardon in 2013. As many as 49,000 others have not

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  2-11-15
  

  Top Secret Documents Found in Roof at Bletchley Park

  Along with the fragmentary codebreaking documents found in the roof were parts of an atlas, a pinboard and a fashion article from a magazine.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1-6-15
  

  Setting The Record Straight For Alan Turing

  by Adam Frank

  It's not just that Turing's work was worthy of a Nobel Prize. He went far beyond that.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  12-19-14
  

  A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing

  by Christian Caryl

  To anyone trying to turn this story into a movie, the choice seems clear: either you embrace the richness of Turing as a character and trust the audience to follow you there, or you simply capitulate, by reducing him to a caricature of the tortured genius.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  7-19-13
  

  Alan Turing to be pardoned for gay conviction

  Alan Turing, the World War Two code breaker who later killed himself after receiving a criminal conviction for his homosexuality, looks set to be pardoned.The Government said it would not stand in the way of legislation to offer a full Parliamentary pardon for Turing, who helped Britain to win the Second World War as a skilled code-breaker.Until now, the Government has resisted using the Royal Prerogative to pardon Turing for his conviction for gross indecency in 1952 because he was a homosexual.Ministers had argued that because Turing was convicted of what was at the time a criminal offence, it is not possible to hand him a full posthumous pardon....