Apologies to the family
A report on Downing Street’s posthumous apology to Alan Turing – the gay mathematician who took his own life two years after being prosecuted for indecency in 1952 and chemically castrated – said that the man often considered the father of modern computer science had no surviving family. In fact, his family includes three neices, a nephew and his mother, and the children and other family members of this second generation (PM’s apology to codebreaker: we were inhumane, 11 September, page 7). Link
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