Gay WWII Hero Death Not Suicide

BY Diane Anderson-Minshall

The 100th birthday of the late Alan Turing, the gay British mathematician and computer theorist whose work decoding the infamous German Enigma machine is often credited with winning WWII, may have been overshadowed by Pride celebrations in the U.S. today but both Google and researchers in his native country didn’t forget.

Today Google honored Turing, who died in 1954 and is often called the father of artificial intelligence, with an animated “Turning machine” Google doodle. A Turing machine, according to PC magazine’s Damon Poeter, was not an actual computer but rather “a hypothetical one that still serves as a fundamental tool for understanding how algorithms, computer programming, and computing itself works.” (Poeter included clips of Turing’s 1948 essay ”Intelligent Machinery” which explains this conceptual computer, a fascinating read for math geeks and gay history buffs for sure.)

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    Turing was a truly amazing man. I didn’t know that his suicide was questionable.
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    dunno how i feel about this. on the one hand, it would be somewhat of a relief to know that he didn’t kill himself, but...
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