Petition: Pardon Turing.
- From: "Mcmanus, Andrew" <andrew.mcmanus.08@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "au-compsci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <au-compsci@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:59:05 +0000
Help to possibly pardon Alan Turing, hero to the Computer Science world, for
his "homosexual crimes" for which he committed suicide over in 1954, years
before laws against homosexuals were dropped. The aim of the petition is to get
the Prime Minister to pardon Alan Turing, after all the hard work he provided
from code-cracking in WW2 to his theories of Artificial Intelligence, where the
Turing Test was devised.
The links provided will go into more detail.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/ (the petition site.)
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1132035_campaign_to_win_official_apology_for_alan_turing
(news report on said petition)
Please sign it. Thanks.
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