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Alan Turing gets a long overdue pardon

Dec 25, 2013
Alan Turing, the father of computer science, was persecuted for being gay. This week, the British government finally pardoned him.

World War II code breakers developed your smartphone

Mar 12, 2012
Before there was Marc Zuckerberg, before there was Steve Jobs, before there was Bill Gates, there was Alan Turing. He conceived of the idea of the universal computer.