Tuesday, June 08, 2004

On this day in 1954

Professor Alan Turing of Manchester University, founder of computer science and breaker of Nazi naval ciphers, died by his own hand after being threatened with jail and stripped of his security clearance because he was gay.

He ate an apple dosed with cyanide. In case you have ever wondered, Apple Computer's logo is a memorial to him.

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