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Alan Turing gets his post-mortem apology.

category international | sci-tech | other press author Friday September 11, 2009 11:24author by Updater Report this post to the editors

Pity Brown cannot see the wood for the trees.

The government of Gordon Brown have apologised about the treatment of
genius Alan Turing:

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

The Universal Turing Machine, Bletchley Park, Enigma- utter genius, co-opted
brutalised and stolen from history by HMG and her wee pals in Intelligence. A
post-mortem apology is better than nothing but it does not amend damage.

Bletchley park is in trouble at the moment and a medal is to cast for survivors in lieu,
I suppose of maintaining the actual park as a museum.

This is a vid from MIT:

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/423

and this is the Bletchley Park helpsite :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/551....html

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/20873.html

In the sense of honouring the victims and ignoring for many years the work of Alan Turing
Brown's Government (who ignore the plight of Gary Mc Kinnon) have had to establish here
a hierarchy of survivors amongst those to be honoured, interestingly the work of the
Polish code-breakers is oft ignored too . S'pos that will be an EU commerorative and
cross-cultural deal at some point.

Someone sent this link to me pointing to gaps in our understanding and how history is
highlighted in a manner that suits the ongoing concerns of governments on this 11/09/09:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_2000060...9906/

Related Link: http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/index.html

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Save Bletchley Park Group are happy     UD    Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:35 
   The Bitten Apple.     Pete.    Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:25 
   like Eve?     UD    Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:40 
   Snow White's apple, assassination or just clumsiness?     hmmm..,    Fri Sep 11, 2009 13:19 
   wrong class     paul    Fri Sep 11, 2009 14:07 
   An Honourable Boffin     Fred Johnston    Fri Sep 11, 2009 17:57 
   er? which are we noting? a postmortem apology or a posthumous apology?     hmm..,    Fri Sep 11, 2009 19:35 
   post-death     UD    Fri Sep 11, 2009 20:31 
   I am sorry, 'hmmm'     Fred Johnston    Sat Sep 12, 2009 16:26 
 10   fewer and fewer people do these days Fred     hmmm..,    Sat Sep 12, 2009 16:42 
 11   Via Irishblogs     UD    Sat Sep 12, 2009 20:09 
 12   Asteroid.     Pete.    Mon Sep 14, 2009 13:39 
 13   I guess the moral of the story is...     Cyanic    Mon Sep 14, 2009 14:46 
 14   Upper Middle Class.     Pete.    Mon Sep 14, 2009 16:22 
 15   I see!     Fred Johnston    Wed Sep 16, 2009 13:48 
 16   Class     Kim Philby    Wed Sep 16, 2009 14:05 
 17   a matter of class & picking up working boys?     hmmm..,    Wed Sep 16, 2009 16:22 
 18   OBE 1945     Pete.    Wed Sep 16, 2009 16:22 
 19   Boole and Cork.     Pete.    Fri Sep 18, 2009 19:14 


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