Alan Turing, the Manchester computer pioneer, will be celebrated in his home city 100 years after his birth. Largely ignored by the establishment during his lifetime – he was persecuted for being gay and prosecuted for having a relationship with a man – there will be a year of celebrations marking the centenary of Turing's birth.
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Turing led efforts to decode German U-boat communications and went on to lay the foundations of modern computing. He made many of his greatest discoveries while working at Manchester University after the war and became known as the father of computer science. The scientist, born in 1912, developed early computer software and made huge leaps in artificial intelligence.
After having to endure humiliating hormone treatment, he took his life at his home in Wilmslow in 1954, aged 41.
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