Alan Turing

• Alan Turings was a once-in-a-generation mind, ticking with mathematical insights that helped end a war and usher in the computing era. That uncanny brain, however, wasnt enough to save him from the cruel prejudices of his day.
(San Francisco Gate)
• If Alan Turing had not existed, would we have had to invent him? The question seems to answer itself: Alan Turing very much did exist, and yet we have persisted in inventing him still.
(BBC News)
• A Nazi bomber flies over London in the autumn of 1940. (AP) Alan Turing saved my life.
(Yahoo Finance)
• Alan Turing would have turned 100 this week, an event that would have, no doubt, been greeted with all manner of pomp -- the centennial of a man whose mid-century concepts would set the stage for modern computing.
(engadget)
• The 40-year-old man appeared disheveled, even unkempt — his hair uncombed, his pants hitched up with string — when he approached the 19-year-old male on the sidewalk in front of the Regal Cinema in Manchester, England, in December 1951.
(The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog))
• Alan Turing was a code-breaker, a computer scientist, a mathematician, an ideas man. His work on breaking the code of the German naval Enigma machines at Bletchley Park in the 1940s is credited with considerably hastening the end of World War II.
(YAHOO!)
• IDG News Service (New York Bureau) — On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born.
(CIO)
• Alan Turing, the computer science legend best known for his part in breaking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park in World War II, may have died of an accident rather than suicide, according to a new claim. Accidental cyanide poisoning? Do go on.
(science20.com)