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

A professor has claimed that Alan Turing, who was widely understood to have committed suicide through ingestion of cyanide, may have in fact died accidentally.Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has played one of the first computer chess programs ever created, written over 60 years ago by Alan Turing.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.The 100th birthday of a the polymath prompts

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