Alan Turing almost single-handedly helped defeat Germany in WWII by breaking the Enigma code and laid many of the foundations for today's modern computer. We think he deserves a Cumberbatch, don't you?
What a great nexus of celebrations this weekend: we have Gay Pride in full-swing here in NYC and we have the 100th birthday of Alan Turing - one of the great gay geeks in history.
Radiolab muses on the troubled but inspiring life, work, and death of Alan Turing. His genius helped the Allies win WWII and sparked the idea of artificial intelligence, but his homosexuality made him an outcast and a criminal.
