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By vanrozenheim
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(UK) - Alan Touring is widely acknowledged as the father of the computer and artificial intelligence. At Bletchley Park, the British intelligence HQ during the second world war, Turing's proto computer, the Bombe, cracked the Nazi's Enigma Code. This week a new statue of Turing was unveiled at Bletchley Park. Though bizarrely the publicity materials neglect to mention he was gay. His homosexuality may have been incidental to his work, but it was instrumental in his death - alongside Oscar Wilde and Harvey Milk, he is one of the great gay martyrs.
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