URGENT: we are trying to meet a publishing deadline to get publicity for this nascent campaign. Please do join and *invite your friends.* Anyone is very welcome to join - whether or not you are interested in taking further part in the campaign. Details will be given via the group.

Currently the only memorial to Alan Turing in Cambridge is a black and white photograph in a basement. Turing's hugely important work in computer science has gone largely under-recognised. He also had a crucial role in winning the war for the Allies, which lent his subsequent arrest and persecution for homosexuality, (which led to suicide) a very bitter irony.

There is currently a campaign (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8226509.stm) for Turing to be pardoned. Our campaign (unaffiliated with that) would be to challenge the university to match funding pledged by students to put up a small bust of Turing with a plaque commemorating his life and achievements. (read less)

URGENT: we are trying to meet a publishing deadline to get publicity for this nascent campaign. Please do join and *invite your friends.* Anyone is very welcome to join - whether or not you are interested in taking further part in the campaign. Details will be given via the group.

Currently the only memorial to Alan Turing in Cambridge is a black and white photograph in a basement. Turing's hugely important work in computer science has gone largely under-recognised. He also had a crucial role... (read more)