{"id":914,"date":"2009-09-02T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T20:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=914"},"modified":"2009-09-02T16:21:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T20:21:45","slug":"914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2009\/09\/02\/914\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming dignity."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_913\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"size-full wp-image-913\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/09\/alan_turing_closeup.png\" alt=\"Bust of Alan Turing \" width=\"480\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/09\/alan_turing_closeup.png 480w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/09\/alan_turing_closeup-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bust of Alan Turing <\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanturing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">He laid the mathematical foundation for modern computer science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_915\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"size-full wp-image-915\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/09\/allied_invasion_force-480px.png\" alt=\"Allied Invasion Plans and German Positions Normandy 1944\" width=\"480\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/09\/allied_invasion_force-480px.png 480w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/09\/allied_invasion_force-480px-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allied Invasion Plans and German Positions Normandy 1944<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A lot was known about German positions prior to the Allied Landing in Normandy June 1944. The Allies had Ultra intelligence. Folks at <a href=\"Blechley Park\" target=\"_blank\">Bletchley Park <\/a>broke the German Enigma code.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_916\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-916\" class=\"size-full wp-image-916\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/09\/bletchley_park-480px.png\" alt=\"Bletchley Park\" width=\"480\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/09\/bletchley_park-480px.png 480w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/09\/bletchley_park-480px-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bletchley Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Turing\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Turing<\/a> had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanturing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">a lot to do with the success of that effort<\/a>. But he was a homosexual. The British Government arrested him and chemically castrated him for it. British computer scientist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Graham-Cumming\" target=\"_blank\">John Graham-Cumming<\/a> thinks it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jgc.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/my-alan-turing-petition.html\" target=\"_blank\">time for the British Government to apologize<\/a>. His petition has been noticed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/8226509.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/europe\/09\/01\/alan.turing.petition\/index.html?eref=rss_latest\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>. Cameron Buckner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/worldturingpetition\/\" target=\"_blank\">thinks the world should be heard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am enthusiastic about this idea, but for one thing. You should not have to be a genius to be treated with dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He laid the mathematical foundation for modern computer science. A lot was known about German positions prior to the Allied Landing in Normandy June 1944. The Allies had Ultra intelligence. Folks at Bletchley Park broke the German Enigma code. Alan Turing had a lot to do with the success of that effort. But he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}