> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Brian Walters > > >> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf > >> Of Godfrey DiGiorgi Yup. SJ weaseled it out of Xerox legitimately, > >> Microsoft stole the ideas from Apple. > > > > It's the hundredth anniversary of Turing's birth today. Everybody > > stole everything from him. > > > > Ironically he killed himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple after > > being prosecuted and persecuted for being gay and forced to take > drugs > > which made him grow breasts. I wonder if Jobs had that in mind when > he > > chose the symbol of a rainbow-striped apple with a bite taken out. > > > > Google has a nice doodle today marking the centenary. Thanks to them > > for helping to fund Bletchley Park. > > > I hadn't realised the significance of the Google Doodle (Goodle?)... > > By coincidence SBS TV here broadcast 'Codebreaker' just a couple of > weeks ago to mark the 58th anniversary of his suicide. It's a great > insight into Turing's life. I'm not sure if the film has had much of a > distribution outside of the UK (and now Australia) but it's well worth > seeing if it turns up in other locations. >
his biography by Alan Hodges is well worth reading, and very accessible: <http://www.turing.org.uk/book/> B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
