![]() “We’re sorry - you deserved so much better,” said Gordon Brown, then the prime minister. Only in 2009 did the government apologize for his treatment. Britain didn’t take its first steps toward decriminalizing homosexuality until 1967. On June 7, 1954, Alan Turing, a British mathematician who has since been acknowledged as one the most innovative and powerful thinkers of the 20th century - sometimes called the progenitor of modern computing - died as a criminal, having been convicted under Victorian laws as a homosexual and forced to endure chemical castration. ![]() ![]() Instead, by the narrow standards of his day, his reputation was sullied. ![]() LONDON - His genius embraced the first visions of modern computing and produced seminal insights into what became known as “artificial intelligence.” As one of the most influential code breakers of World War II, his cryptology yielded intelligence believed to have hastened the Allied victory.īut, at his death several years later, much of his secretive wartime accomplishments remained classified, far from public view in a nation seized by the security concerns of the Cold War. ![]()
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