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[ATY/TCAC] Update - January 7, 2014 [ATY/TCAC] Update - January 7, 2014 At last - the promised New Year 2014 update. We've attempted to organise the items into themes. It is hard to avoid starting with the Royal Pardon ... but before that: A TURING YEAR 2014 CARD FROM HONG KONG ATY 1) We asked Loke Lay in Hong Kong if her creative friends might design a card for the start of Turing Year 2014 - 60 years since Alan Turing's passing in 1954. After much work and one or two revisions, this was the outcome - beautiful, we think - small version at: http://www.turingcentenary.eu/ or full-size image at: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/Card_vChun.jpg Notice the diamond (60th anniversary) design theme. We asked Loke Lay for a list of friends who helped with the card - her list: --------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Winnie Fu's (official) designer, "Ah-B" Bede Leung. (2) Winnie Fu's "Hong Kong Film Archive" assistants, Gladys and Kay. (3) Ernest Chan Chi-Wa, Chair of "Hong Kong Film Critics Society". (4) "The Wonder Lad" Law Chi-Chun, Senior Executive Officer of "Hong Kong Computer Society". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- She added: This time "Ah-Chun" has saved The Card in the early morning of New Year's Day, like Arnold Schwarzenegger saving Edward Furlong in "Terminator 2"!! Originally, a more complex, cryptic and sombre version of the card was produced, and simplified (by request) to the final version - we may share the original later in the year. Loke Lay also sent photos of media coverage of the pardon: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/sing-tao1.jpg ALAN TURING's ROYAL PARDON This has given rise to the most extensive national and international media coverage of Alan Turing and his legacy ever. Internationally the response has been predominantly positive - Peter van Emde Boas caught the mood with his "Congratulations with this success; it doesn't make the UK any less strange however... ". The fact the pardon was 61 years coming was universally commented on. In the UK, many were unhappy with the word 'pardon' wanting something recognised that the fault was that of the state. Everyone was concerned about others who had had lives ruined by the same law - and, like Turing, had died before they or their families could benefit from the recent legislation, which enables those living to apply to have their convictions 'disregarded' and wiped from the records. Here is the Stonewall guide to the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (relevant to many of the "75,000 others" - in some places "50,000 others" - widely commented on): http://www.stonewall.org.uk/at_home/hate_crime_domestic_violence_and_criminal_law/8064.asp The Cambridge Student webpage nicely captured the mood "Alan Turing's pardon is simply not enough", and got the facts right: http://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/comment/0031341-alan-turing-s-pardon-is-simply-not- enough.html We will not dwell on the huge coverage and discussion of the pardon online. Here are just a few highlights. We can't possibly give all the links - many covering the same ground - but we'll end this update with some of the more interesting ones. 2) The scale of the international coverage owes much to Associated Press London correspondent Raphael Satter. The AP reach is of course huge, and there were literally hundreds of media reports with an AP origin from around the world. For instance, here is Al Jazeera America echoing the AP report with "UK pardons computer pioneer Alan Turing 59 years after death": http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/24/uk-finally-pardonscomputerpioneeralanturing.html From USA Today: "Gay, code-breaking WWII hero pardoned by U.K": http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/12/23/united-kingdom-alan-turing-pardon/ 4182875/ ABC News "UK Finally Pardons Computer Pioneer Alan Turing": http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/uk-finally-pardons-computer-pioneer-alan- turing-21318506 Huffington Post "Alan Turing Pardoned By UK Government, Finally": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/24/alan-turing-pardoned-uk-gay_n_4497427.html CTV News "U.K. finally pardons Alan Turing, war hero punished for his sexuality": http://bit.ly/1dpYR8D The Boston Globe "UK pardons computer pioneer Alan Turing": http://b.globe.com/19MEKGp etc, etc 3) Many first heard the Royal Pardon news via radio or TV on Christmas Eve - for instance on the BBC Today programme that morning, with John Humphrys interviewing Baroness Trumpington and Barry Cooper: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25503464 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nxh88 Baroness Trumpington was specially generous in her praise for Lord Sharkey, whose private members bill introduced in the House of Lords played such a large part in the eventual outcome. See also the BBC page "Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing" with further videos: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315 Other Christmas Eve interviews included Sue Black in one for The Telegraph "Alan Turing's Royal pardon is long overdue": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10536644/Alan-Turings-Royal-pardon-is-long- overdue.html And Barry Cooper's interview for Sky TV News in the afternoon: http://www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk/pure/logic/computability/BarryTalks/sky24_12_13.mov You can also hear Barry interviewed on BBC Radio 3 Counties by Roberto Perrone (thanks to the BBC and Mark Cotton) at the Alan Turing Year AudioBoo webpage: https://audioboo.fm/AlanTuringYear 4) Jim Stone wrote to us saying "Well done for helping to get Turing pardoned. I heard someone say the next campaign should be for him to get a knighthood; a fine idea." Someone else must have been listening - New Year's Eve found Maureen Lipmann on BBC Radio 2 (Jeremy Vine programme) saying Alan Turing should get a posthumous knighthood - it's around 69mins20secs into this clip: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03m7pl7 5) As well as speeaking out for the "50,000 others", Peter Tatchell has used the media interest in Turing to revive the theory that Alan Turing was murdered as a security risk following his conviction - see Guardian Liberty Voice (no link to The Guardian) "Alan Turing Murdered Under Orders of British Spy Chiefs?": http://guardianlv.com/2013/12/alan-turing-murdered-under-orders-of-british-spy-chiefs/ or the very influential US GayCities magazine Queerty "Was Alan Turing’s “Suicide” a Secret Spy Murder?": http://www.queerty.com/new-allegations-was-alan-turings-suicide-a-secret-spy-murder-20131230/ and Daily Express "Did security services kill codebreaker Alan Turing for being gay?": http://dexpr.es/1aaM0Kc 6) Artist Maxime Xavier, creator of a superb Alan Turing portrait - see: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/Maxim_Xavier.jpg wrote: "The Best News Ever! At long last, If you would like to use my painting of Alan Turing please do, I call it to make amends as in the bottom right hand corner in the painting i have the Enigma machine under water with the letters ABY which means to make amends, Great news at long last we finely have" See her evocative painting at: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/maxine_001.JPG 7) We have some wonderful messages, which would be good to share if they were not so clearly personal. We will share a few extracts where the comments have a more 'public' aspect: *** Our reply to David Slater started "Thanks for your brilliant message. Yes, I was surprised with such a sudden outcome, and I think Lord Sharkey who started off the private member's bill for a pardon was too - I have to give him full credit for a nicely timed bill, and an excellent speech at the second reading" *** And Lord Sharkey himself wrote that "I myself think that the Government was genuinely taken aback by the scale and reach of the 2012 Turing Year and that this had a real influence on its thinking" *** Professor David Green, Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive, University of Worcester, wrote "I woke to read this marvellous news this morning on the BBC website where it is currently the top story...after the Christmas Eve storm, of course - weather trumps all." The rest was very appreciative of all that the ATY community have done, including the subscribers to this list, of course. *** Prof. K. Vela Velupillai wrote: "It is 3.10 AM, here in NY, and I am listening to the Today program on BBC Radio 4, ... the legendary Mr John Humphries - on Alan Turing, and the belated 'Royal Pardon'!" *** From Ed Whitaker: "I could hardly believe my eyes reading your communication, what wonderful timing as you say. Wonderful news. I have been playing my copy of Code Breaker to as many visitors to our home as possible, and it leaves everyone amazed at Alan Turing's genius and the range of the sciences that he contributed to, and full of horror regarding the way he was persecuted." *** To put things in context, Dennis Hejhal sent us this affecting news of an “other than honorable” discharge of a marine for being gay, in 1956, finally changed after 6 decades - see The New York Times story "One Marine’s Dying Wish": http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/opinion/sunday/bruni-one-marines-dying-wish.html?_r=2& *** And, Joyce Lavey wrote "To let you know the US perspective" which led us to the video link "Alan Grayson on Alan Turing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMTjoNiU_Kg *** From Alan J. Edwards BA, who knew Turing in the gay Manchester before his arrest: "I just want to say thanks for the speed of your passing on the great news of the pardon for AMT.
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