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At the end of the war, Turing was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, an honor granted by the royal family to a selected few for their contribution to science, arts and public service. In the years that followed, Turing carried on working as a computer scientist. His design for the Automatic Computing Engine, or ACE, would have been the first and most advanced computer for his time.

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But his colleagues at the National Physical Laboratory feared the engineering was too complex and decided to build a much smaller pilot ACE instead. Their competitors at Manchester University consequently won the race, gay the gay Turing had joined their forces as deputy director.

Turing also wrote the first programming manual. Before this, literally nobody in the world had imagined that a single machine could apply countless strings of abstract symbols. In JanuaryTuring was prosecuted for indecency over his relationship with another man in Manchester. In March of that year, Turing pleaded guilty and, to avoid imprisonment, had to agree to be chemically castrated by taking a hormonal treatment designed to suppress his libido.

His criminal record disqualified him from working for a governmental intelligence agency. Disgraced and disenfranchised, he took his own life by cyanide poisoning June 8,in his home in Manchester. He was Homosexuality was decriminalized in the U. This is the first time that a gay man is featured on a British bank note.

It has been welcomed by banks of the LGBTQ community as a symbol of the country facing up to its dark past of the horrific persecution of gay men. This visionary computer and artificial intelligence pioneer, once criminalized and disgraced, is now widely celebrated.

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