And it's Alan Turing Year: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/ Judy Evans, Cardiff --- On Wed, 11/1/12, cblists@xxxxxxxx <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: cblists@xxxxxxxx <cblists@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Speaking of Turing ... > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wednesday, 11 January, 2012, 9:58 > From January 2nd's Guardian: > > The mathematician and second world war codebreaker Alan > Turing is to be celebrated on a special stamp as an online > petition calls for a posthumous pardon to quash his > conviction for gross indecency. > > The computer pioneer is one of 10 prominent people chosen > for the Royal Mail's Britons of Distinction stamps ... > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/02/codebreaker-alan-turing-stamp-approval?INTCMP=SRCH > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html