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Re:Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma by nextstep on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:28PM (#27597468)
They might just mean to a general, American audience.
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Re:Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma by teraflop on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:39PM (#27597560)
Oh, it's definitely true that general public knowledge of Turing's life and work has increased over the years. I just don't think it has anything to do with those "key documents" that were released in 2012, as opposed to, you know, the movie about his life and the public apology/pardon he received around the same time.
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Re:Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma by nwallin on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:47PM (#27599336)
He was born in 1912. There was a lot of celebration in 2012 relating to the 100th anniversary of his birth. Not just the 2014 movie.
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Re:Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma by rudyfink on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:26PM (#27598026)
Alan Turing's Google NGram certainly supports your impression that "general public knowledge of Turing's life and work has increased over the years."

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Alan+Turing&ye...

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Re:Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma by stavros on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @07:10PM (#27598510)
Wasn't jgrahamc largely responsible for the apology?
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Re:Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma by jgrahamc on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:31AM (#27601438)
Yes
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Re:Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma by stavros on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:20AM (#27604225)
That was an excellent campaign.
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Re:Alan Turing's biggest fan remains the real enigma by buildbot on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:26PM (#27600453)
Neal Stephensons Cryptonomicon came out in 1999, which while fictional, features Turing and his work very heavily and was a popular book in America, so that doesn't seem totally correct either.
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