Turing was gay, and he was prosecuted for this illegal activity. ... Before he turned 42, in 1954, he was dead of cyanide poisoning. It was ruled as a suicide, but his family believed he was murdered.
A couple of years ago, then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, issued an apology for the way Turing was treated.
from Brown's speech:
"The debt of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that he was treated so inhumanely."
More. Much, Much More:
THE ALAN TURING HOME PAGE.
ALAN TURING DOT NET: The Turing Archive for
the history of computers.
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