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Alan Turing: The One Who Became a Zero

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Wadham College
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Andrew Hodges (author of Alan Turing: The Enigma) delivers a lecture on Alan Turing, the founder of modern computer science, as part of LGBT month.
The British mathematician Alan Turing, whose centenary falls this year, was the founder of modern computer science. He was also the chief scientific figure in the Anglo-American codebreaking effort in World War II, centred on Bletchley Park. His life as a gay man illustrates the harsh oppression but also the growing consciousness of that era.
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Series
Wadham College
People
Andrew Hodges
Keywords
code
gay
bletchley
lgb
turing
computing
ww2
machine
lgbt
computer
enigma
cracking
crack
maths
mathematics
world war
oxford
Department: Wadham College
Date Added: 02/03/2012
Duration: 00:55:10

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