Alan Turing is the godfather of computer science and artificial intelligence. he died in 1954 after committing suicide. Ex- prime minister Gordon Brown did offer an official apology to Turing in 2009—but an apology implies a wrongdoing on the government’s part, while a pardon suggests absolution. The refusal to pardon hints that prejudice may be lingering in the House of Lords (even though the House of Lords has homosexuals in the few closets that aren’t occupied by skeletons). View next Turing's cryptanalytic machine that broke the code of german Enigma a predecessor of Turing universal machine. An episode in the film about Alan Turing's "imitation game" or Turing Test posted original by Ian Watson at vimeo