Queen pardons computing giant Alan Turing 59 years after his suicide

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Queen Elizabeth II granted a rare "mercy pardon" Monday to Alan Turing, the computing and mathematics pioneer whose chemical castration for being gay drove him to suicide almost 60 years ago.

Turing was one of the leading scientific geniuses of the 20th century — the man who cracked the supposedly uncrackable Enigma code used by Nazi Germany in World War II and the man many scholars consider the father of modern computer science.

By the time he was 23, Turing had hypothesized what would become today's computers — the Turing machine, which could emulate any computing device or program. Almost 80 years later, Turing machines are still used in theoretical computation.

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1. The pardon is long overdue ...

and while the sentiment seems sincere, I'd like to see the word 'apology' in there too.
RIP, Mr. Turing. Your contributions will be remembered for a very long time. Thank you.