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Parliamentarians seek pardon for Turing Jul 25th 2012, 16:48 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-nor...l-lord-sharkey Quote: The campaign to win a pardon for the UK's computer genius Alan Turing has been stepped up by the introduction today of a Private Members Bill in the House of Lords. The brief measure calls for action to be taken in the current centenary year of the birth of Turing, who was convicted of gross indecency with another man in 1952 when such sexual encounters were unlawful. The one-page bill was laid before the Lords this morning, Wednesday 25 May, by Lord Sharkey, the Liberal Democrat peer who lobbied the government unsuccessfully in February for a pardon. The refusal prompted the leading American mathematician Dennis Hejhal to call for "an appropriate hullabaloo" in the UK... ...Lord Sharkey, who has enlisted all-party support in both houses of Parliament, says: "We are talking about a great man, an exceptionally great man, whose mind changed the course of science - and the course of the Second World War."

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