Alan Turing: Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable'

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. Read this blog post by Chris Matyszczyk onAlan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed, claims an academic.Born a century ago today, Mr. Turing advanced machine intelligence. But he lived in a time when the incalculable value of his work was not a

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