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From: johnc@dartvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Alan Turing biography
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Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 02:21:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 12 02:21:31 1984
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  I had not heard of Turing much before he was brought up in
this group (I'm only a HS senior, not much CS yet), but I did
see a mention of him today in someplace other than the net --
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.  He was mentioned a
couple of times in 'Resurrection' by Damien Broderick.  The
story did mention his sexual orientation (right word?), but
only in passing.

     "Poor Alan had taken his own life in 1954, hounded
      by bigots who would not tolerate  his sexual pre-
      ferences ..."

  Not only that, but the story wasn't bad either :->

--johnc
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