Those of you who signed the petition demanding an apology for Alan
Turing may have been e-mailed about this already, but Gordon Brown has
issued an apology.
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571
Reading it I felt it diminished Turing somewhat in that the description
of his meaning to Britain was merely his role in the war effort. The
petition creator wrote it better: "Alan Turing was the greatest computer
scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing."
If you haven't, you're still free to add your name to the petition if
you would like to:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/
Dan
