"Gordon Brown has said he is sorry for the "appalling" way World War II code-breaker Alan Turing was treated."
"A petition on the No 10 website had called for a posthumous government apology to the computer pioneer. "
Alan was a genious, he is the master of computer technology today. Alan Turing and Tommy Flowers built the first ever number crunching computers based at Bletchley and Manchester University. The trouble was that nobody knew about the computers, later, "Collossus" the first programmable computer, was a secret and after the war, instructions were given to dismantle the machines and hide them away! Fifty years later when the secrets were revealed the machines were 'found' and rebuilt. This was all too late for Alan...a sad story!
What was it that Winston Churchill said...something about owing so much to so few...well Alan Turing, you rank high in the league table!
I signed the petition and now he has got the apology deserved!
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