Alan Turing: UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute

A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.Collector's stamp and envelope being issued by Bletchley Park Post Office for Olympic Torch Relay on 9th July. Features Alan Turing as the torch bearer to celebrate his centenary and London Olympics year.Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess. Sadly, he never got to see it running on a

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