Alan Turing petition

For anyone who may read this blog. I just wanted to make you aware of a petition to support the posthumous apology from the government to Alan Turing.

For those who do not know who Alan Turing is, you may like to read the article here from the BBC website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8226509.stm

To sum up briefly, Alan Turing was a brilliant scientist whose work at Bletchley Park was critical to Britain during world war two - specifically in connection with decryption and code-breaking. Turing was a homosexual and after admitting to a relationship with another man was prosecuted and then subjected to chemical castration treatment. His death, just over two years later, was originally claimed to be under "suspicious circumstances" but the cause of death is now agreed to have been suicide.

If you would like to sign the petition it is here:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/

Thanks for reading. All the best,

Dominic