On August 19th 2014, something exceptional happened: Queen Elizabeth II finally granted a posthumous pardon to Alan Turing (1912-1954), convicted in 1952 for homosexual acts. (Partner content viaOpenMind)
2013.12.24
Herbert Simon與他好友得過 Turing Award
| 1975 |  Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon |
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequentially [sic] with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing |
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Turing Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_AwardThe ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to "an individual selected for contributions of a ...
他 Simon 生前的文章，就為Alan Turing當年受迫害而自盡抱屈......
The
British mathematician regarded as the “father of modern computing”
received a formal pardon from Queen Elizabeth II for his conviction in
1952 on charges of homosexuality, at the time a criminal offense in
Britain.
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