Alan Turing's remarkable life and legacy celebrated in Science Museum exhibition
Alan Turing was a code-breaker, a computer scientist, a mathematician, an ideas man. full story 
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The Universal Machine, New Diorama - theatre review
The mathematician Alan Turing committed suicide in 1954. Today he is celebrated for his remarkable contributions to computing, artificial intelligence and the wartime code-breaking efforts at Bletchley Park. But in his lifetime he was a haunted prodigy, hounded for being gay.
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Alan Turing's Pilot Ace computer - video
Built in the 1950s and one of the Science Museum's 20th century icons, The Pilot Ace "automatic computing engine" was the world's first general purpose computer
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 12 days ago)
'The Gay President: A Novel': A tribute to Alan Turing
"The Gay President: A Novel" is the beginning of a series of works by author Dominic Lacerva. According to a press release by the author on Thursday, the series is in honor of Alan Turing who...
examiner.com (2 months and 18 days ago)
Book Review : Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age by B. Jack Copeland
The ideas of mathematician and computer visionary Alan Turing are explored through interviews of his friends and colleagues. Oxford Univ., 2012, 300 p., $21.95
sciencenews.org (1 month and 19 days ago)
Alan Turing's Universal Machine is named greatest British innovation of the 20th Century
Mathematician Alan Turing's theoretical basis for all modern computers known as the 'universal machine' has been voted the greatest British innovation of the past century in a new poll.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 1 day ago)
World's first King Herod exhibition opens in Jerusalem - video
Jerusalem's Israel Museum launches the world's first exhibition on the life and legacy of the ancient Roman King Herod the Great on Tuesday
guardian.co.uk (3 months and 11 days ago)
The Universal Machine – review
New Diorama, London"Is there anything you don't know?" enquires another boy on meeting maths prodigy Alan Turing at school in the 1920s. There was quite a lot that Turing, whose decoding of the German Engima machine shortened the war and saved millions of lives, did not know. One was how to relate to other people who often found him strange ("Alan is different from other...
guardian.co.uk (25 days ago)
Up Pompeii: it’s hot stuff at the Museum
Paul Roberts, head of Roman Collections at the British Museum and curator of the current Pompeii exhibition, gave a talk at the Polish Hearth Club in Exhibition Road on Friday entitled Life and Love in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
standard.co.uk (4 days ago)
Enigma Online: Google Launches Bletchley Park 'DIgital Museum'
Google has helped to secure the legacy of Bletchley Park, the wartime HQ of Alan Turing and Britain's heroic codebreakers, by launching a new online museum to tell its story. The Victorian manor house in Buckinghamshire was converted into a prototype 'hackers' compound, known as the Government Code and Cypher school, during World War II. By using codebreaking machines and...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 13 days ago)
The art exhibition with a PG warning: Erotic Pompeii goat statue that amused the Romans arrives at the British Museum
The Roman sculpture of the god Pan having sex with a female goat features in the London museum's latest exhibition; Life And Death In Pompeii And Herculaneum.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 13 days ago)
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