Alan Turing: The One Who Became a Zero

Andrew Hodges (author of Alan Turing: The Enigma) delivers a lecture on Alan Turing, the founder of modern computer science. This is the third annual lecture for LGBT history month. The British mathematician Alan Turing, whose centenary falls this year, was the founder of modern computer science. He was also the chief scientific figure in the Anglo-American codebreaking effort in World War II, centred on Bletchley Park. His life as a gay man illustrates the harsh oppression but also the growing consciousness of that era.

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Alan Turing: The One Who Became a Zero is an episode from Oxford LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) History Month Lectures by Oxford University.

This episode is 55:10 long.

This episode was published on Mar 2, 2012.

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