Monday, 7. June 2004
Topic: COMPUTER - on June 7, 2004 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
'Father of the computer' honoured
The father of the modern computer is being honoured, 50 years after he died in tragic circumstances.
Alan Turing was one of the pioneers of computer science, and his work helped make the modern PC a reality.
He was also one of the secret code breakers working at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
He killed himself on 7 June 1954, by eating an apple he laced with cyanide. On Monday, a blue plaque will be erected outside his home in Cheshire.
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