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 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
