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Alan Turing (1912-1954) was the mathematician credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II, enabling the Allies to defeat the Nazis. After the war, Turing went on to launch modern computer science through his creation of the universal Turing machine and the Imitation Game, an artificial-intelligence test that is still in use today. Turing kept his code-breaking work a secret in order to safeguard his native England, but fa...

Alan Turing, the mathematician credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II, is shown to be an eccentric, persecuted genius whose seminal work still plays a role in fuelling our modern world.

Il 10 settembre 2009, il primo ministro britannico Gordon Brown, accogliendo una petizione promossa da John Graham-Cumming, rilasciò una dichiarazione di scuse nei confronti di Alan Turing per conto del governo britannico. Chiuse con questa frase: «Ci dispiace. Avresti meritato molto di più». " Quattro anni dopo, il 24 dicembre 2013, - la regina Elisabetta II ha concesso a Turing la grazia reale postuma (Royal Prerogative of Mercy), con la seg...