Εφημ. ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ, 10/1979
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Τιμούν τον πατέρα της σύγχρονης πληροφορικής
Το άγαλμα προς τιμή του, κοντά στο βρετανικό πανεπιστήμιο του Μάντσεστερ, τον δείχνει καθισμένο σε ένα παγκάκι να κρατά ένα μήλο.
«Η εφεύρεση του υπολογιστή είναι μια τόσο μεγάλη συνεισφορά που φαίνεται παράξενο να επιδιώκεται μια ακόμη μεγαλύτερη. Ωστόσο υποθέτω ότι η συνεισφορά του στην αποκρυπτογράφηση των κωδίκων των ναζί είχε μια ακόμη μεγαλύτερη επίδραση στον κόσμο», δήλωσε ο Τζακ Κόπλαντ, εμπειρογνώμων των μαθηματικών που έγραψε πολλά βιβλία για τον Τούρινγκ.
Ορισμένοι ιστορικοί εκτιμούν ότι αυτό συνέβαλε στην ταχύτερη πτώση του Χίτλερ, ο οποίος διαφορετικά θα παρέμενε στην εξουσία για ακόμη δύο ή περισσότερα χρόνια.
Με τη «δοκιμή Τούρινγκ» ο βρετανός επιστήμονας συνέβαλε σημαντικά στη συζήτηση σχετικά με τη τεχνητή νοημοσύνη: εάν είναι δυνατό να λεχθεί ότι μια μηχανή γνωρίζει και μπορεί να σκεφτεί. Επίσης με την καθολική μηχανή Τούρινγκ, παρείχε μια επίσημη έννοια του αλγορίθμου και της ανάλυσης των αριθμών διατυπώνοντας την ευρέως αποδεκτή έκδοση Τούρινγκ, ότι δηλαδή οποιοδήποτε πρακτικό πρότυπο υπολογισμού έχει είτε ένα ισότιμο είτε ένα υποσύνολο των ικανοτήτων μιας μηχανής Τούρινγκ.

It was the direct result of a visit to Edward Carpenter at Millthorpe. Carpenter . . . was a socialist who ignored industrialism and a simple-lifer with an independent income and a . . . believer in the love of comrades, whom he sometimes called Uranians. It was this last aspect of him that attracted me in my loneliness. . . . I approached him . . . as one approaches a savior. It must have been on my second or third visit to the shrine that the spark was kindled as he and his comrade George Merrill combined to make a profound impression on me and to touch a creative spring. George Merrill also touched my backside—gently and just above the buttocks. . . . The sensation was unusual and I still remember it. . . . It was as much psychological as physical. It seemed to go straight through the small of my back into my ideas, without involving my thoughts. - E.M. ForsterCarpenter died within a year of his partner’s death and the two men are buried together in a grave in Guildford






"Eros is a great leveller. Perhaps the true Democracy rests, more firmly than anywhere else, on a sentiment which easily passes the bounds of class and caste, and unites in the closest affection the most estranged ranks of society. It is noticeable how often Uranians of good position and breeding are drawn to rougher types, as of manual workers, and frequently very permanent alliances grow up in this way, which although not publicly acknowledged have a decided influence on social institutions, customs and political tendencies."(Note: The term "Uranian", referring to a passage from Plato's Symposium, was often used at the time to describe someone who would be termed "gay" nowadays.)
George Merrill (1866–1928) was the lifetime companion of English poet and gay activist Edward Carpenter.
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Gigi was then released. Ernest told Gigi re his arrest: “Well it killed mother”. This caused a rupture between father and son. However Gregory started to write again after Ernest had two back-to-back airplane crashes in east Africa in 1954, and sent a congratulatory wire when he won the Nobel Prize later the same year.
In 1988, Gigi had a single breast implant on the left side. In 1991 he met Ida Mae Galliher (1941 – ) in the ladies room of a bar in Coconut Grove, Miami, and 21 months later they were married in his boyhood home which had been a National Historic Landmark since 1968.
In 2001 Gloria was arrested outside a state park for indecent exposure and resisting arrest. She was nude but carrying a dress and high-heel shoes. She died of hypertension and cardiovascular disease on the fifth day of incarceration in the Miami-Dade Women's Detention Center. Her death at age 69 was 50 years to the day from her mother’s death.