Alan turing - 8 things you didn’t know about Alan Turing

Like all others who came to Bletchley, he was required to sign the , in which he agreed not to disclose anything about his work at Bletchley, with severe legal penalties for violating the Act.

Menzies reveals he knew this already and planted the messages Cairncross leaks to the Soviets for British benefit.

It is also curious that Turing's best-known paper should appear in a journal of philosophy, for it may well be said that Turing, always committed to materialist explanation, was not really a philosopher at all.

Alan Turing received a royal pardon for the ill-treatment he received Homophobia is no longer condoned in Britain, for this reason, there was an online petition to pardon Alan Turing.