UK lawmakers call for Alan Turing banknote tribute

A group of British lawmakers called Wednesday for World War II code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing to be commemorated on a banknote.In 48 hours it would be June 23, 2012: the 100th birthday of Alan Turing. (Sadly, Turing did not live to see even his 50th. In 1952 his honesty and integrity led him to acknowledge when talking to the police that a young manAlan Turing would have turned 100 this week, an event that would have, no doubt, been greeted with all manner of pomp -- the

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