UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute

Thoughts on a war hero whose country turned on him.(AP) – 1 minute ago. LONDON (AP) — A group of British lawmakers is calling for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote. This year marks the centenary of the birth of Turing, who helped crack secretOn Saturday Alan Turing would have celebrated his 100th birthday. In his short life he revolutionised the scientific world and so 2012 has been declared Turing Year to celebrate his life and scientific achievements. You canA professor has claimed that Alan Turing, who was widely understood to have committed suicide through ingestion of cyanide, may have in fact died accidentally.It's no exaggeration to say that Alan Turing was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. Regarded as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, he also made ground-breaking

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