Google's impossibly clever Alan Turing doodle: In a doodle celebrating the 100th birthday of Alan Turing tomorrow, Google creates a conundrum that the majority of humanity simply won't understand. This is a good thing.
A Google Doodle for Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday
For more on Alan Turing, his many contributions to computer science, cryptography, and other fields, the prosecution for indecency for having a sexual relationship with another man, and his suicide, see the Wikipedia article or the one from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Turing was younger than me when he died, only 41, and that's sad, especially after his many gifts helped save lives, and yet he was convicted of a crime that quite frankly seems silly to most of us today, but through which careers and lives were unjustly ruined for many years.
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