Alan Turing, Pardoned

[Guest gnappies]

May not mean much to those outside the UK, but if you're reading this, you probably have to be thankful to him for a lot of it.

[spoonchicken]

Quite right.....a true genius whose talents achieved much....too bad he got screwed over by the very society he saved from destruction & conquest......glad to see he got a long-overdue "attaboy"....perhaps the then-recent memories of "The Cambridge 5" still haunted the public mindset of the day....

[ForbiddenFruit]

I understand Royal Pardons cannot be given out en masse but I wish the same was done for the great many people still alive whose lives have been affected by this "law". Ethically speaking, pardon none or pardon all.

[-Sudoku-]

About bloody time! His work paved the way for modern computing - brilliant man!

[smarti]

His suicide, believed to result from his conviction and sentence which included "chemical castration" was a huge loss to the nascent