Robert D sez,
Today would have been the 96th birthday of cryptologist, mathematician and father of almost everything digital Alan Turing. That he was persecuted for his homosexuality to the point of suicide is a crime and a tragedy.
Remember today the man who, more than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, is the reason you are now sitting at a computer, reading this very sentence.
ALAN MATHISON TURING
23 June, 1912 – 7 June, 1954
(Thanks, Robert!)
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