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Alan Turing was a fucking hero, and the British legal system drove him to suicide (lemmy.world)
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[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

He was singularly brilliant in coming up with the Turing Machine and contributing towards the Church Turing Thesis which are the foundations of all computer science. It is true that he did not crack enigma by himself but his scientific contributions shouldn’t be understated.

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