Yesterday, the British Government issued a formal apology for its terrible acts against Alan Turing (
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571). Mr. Turing was a brilliant mathematician, who we owe so much to for his work in the fields of encryption, computation theory and lambda calculus, artificial intelligence, and computer science. Specifically, he played a very important part in developing the stored program machines that would evolve into the modern day computer, in breaking Nazi enigma machine cryptology (using his own 'Turing Machine'), and in laying down much of the foundation of Artificial Intelligence theory. Turing also studied under Alonzo Church and contributed significantly to the development of lambda calculus and other computation and algorithm theories... from which, modern day functional programming was born.
I've studied his work a fair amount and have long felt that he was one of the 5 most brilliant minds of the past 200 years. The cruelty inflicted on him by his own government was tragic and it is good to see a formal apology for the way that this hero was so wrongly treated.
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