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Alan Turing

Alan Turing, Digital Pioneer

Arts, Culture & Media

Alan Turing’s pioneering vision for computers continues to shape our daily lives, decades after his death.

Former Bombe operator Jean Valentine shows a drum of British Turing Bombe machine in Bletchley Park Museum in Bletchley, central England, September 6, 2006. For the first time in sixty years Bletchley Park re-created the way the 'unbreakable' Enigma code

Alan Turing may have cracked Nazi codes, but thousands of women helped

Technology
A panel from "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" graphic novel.

Meet the most famous woman in computing you’ve probably never heard of

Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing

Benedict Cumberbatch takes on another brilliantly awkward role as the man who brought computers to the world

Media
Beck snow art

This artist is taking snow angels to an extreme

Global Scan
Turing

He helped win World War II and was rewarded with chemical castration

Global Politics

In 1950s England, Alan Turing’s sexuality meant that his heroic work during World War II wasn’t good enough. Convicted of engaging in gay sex, he was ordered chemically castrated. A short time later, he committed suicide. On Tuesday, Queen Elizabeth II gave him an official pardon.

The World

Apology campaign for British Nazi code-breaker

Global Politics

There’s a campaign under way in Britain to press the government to issue an apology in the case of Alan Turing. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more about the campaign from Richard Gill.

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