By robb allan |
Wed, 05/19/2021 - 18:59
2014-03-18T05:18:25
A theory of Turing's regarding cell differentiation – all the more remarkable since he was a mathematician, not a biologist – has just been proved, 60 years after he killed himself following prosecution and conviction as a homosexual. This is the man who cracked the German WWII ciphers, devised the universally accepted test for artificial intelligence, and reinvented the definition of mathematical proofs that underlies all of modern computing. A true genius. First the crown awarded him an OBE – then it decided to persecute and destroy him. How profoundly stupid.