Alan Turing gets his post-mortem apology.

Friday September 11, 2009 11:24

by Updater

Pity Brown cannot see the wood for the trees.

The government of Gordon Brown have apologised about the treatment of
genius Alan Turing:

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

The Universal Turing Machine, Bletchley Park, Enigma- utter genius, co-opted
brutalised and stolen from history by HMG and her wee pals in Intelligence. A
post-mortem apology is better than nothing but it does not amend damage.

Bletchley park is in trouble at the moment and a medal is to cast for survivors in lieu,
I suppose of maintaining the actual park as a museum.

This is a vid from MIT:

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/423

and this is the Bletchley Park helpsite :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/551....html

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/20873.html

In the sense of honouring the victims and ignoring for many years the work of Alan Turing
Brown's Government (who ignore the plight of Gary Mc Kinnon) have had to establish here
a hierarchy of survivors amongst those to be honoured, interestingly the work of the
Polish code-breakers is oft ignored too . S'pos that will be an EU commerorative and
cross-cultural deal at some point.

Someone sent this link to me pointing to gaps in our understanding and how history is
highlighted in a manner that suits the ongoing concerns of governments on this 11/09/09:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_2000060...9906/