Turing papers to stay in Britain after 11th hour auction bid.

[oldironside]

"Second world war papers by the UK's most famous codebreaker, Alan Turing, have been bought for the nation with an 11th-hour bid by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.

Turing's work was in danger of going to a private buyer abroad but will now stay in its "spritual home", Bletchley Park, which was the centre of Britain's top secret code-breaking effort during the war.

The mathematician, often dubbed "the father of computer science", helped crack the German Enigma code while stationed at Bletchley Park."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/25/turing-papers-auction-bid-bletchley#start-of-comments

Hounded to suicide but finally honoured. One can only shake one's head and then wonder at what we were like.

[non sociopath skin]

1. ... and what still too many would like us to be again.

The Skin

[oldironside]

2. Touche, monsieur.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Good news...

though much better if he had not been persecuted by the legal system, and had died of old age.

[fedsron2us]

4. Lets Hope that they get round to doing the same for Tommy Flowers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers

Amazingly he not only designed and built the worlds first programmable electronic computer, Colossus, but he paid for most of it out of his own money as well.