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Watch Dogs Codebreaker Sweater - Large Usually ships in 24 hrs This item cannot ship to a PO Box or APO/FPO address. Ships to U.S. addresses only Add to Wish List View all 9 screenshots and our stores are unable to issue a refund. Please do not return this item to your local GameStop store. To return this product please refer to the instructions included on the packing slip that will be shipped with this item.The tragic WW2 hero is getting the 'King's Speech' treatment Leonardo DiCaprio has emerged as the frontrunner to play codebreaker Alan Turing in a forthcoming film. Warner Bros have bought script The Imitation Game by first-time writer Graham Moore that centres on the mathematics genius, who was credited with playing a significant part in Britain’s victory in the second world war, according to Deadline. At this early stage, the Titanic star is already being linked to the lead role. The film will be expected to build on Hollywood’s appetite for British history following the monster success of The King’s Speech.
Turing was largely written out of 2001’s Enigma, the last major portrayal of the Bletchley Park decryption centre, even though he was the leading figure among the codebreakers. Michael Apted‘s film drew criticism for centreing instead on a heterosexual character named Jericho, played by Dougray Scott, who in all other ways resembled Turing. Turing has been credited as the godfather of computer science and artificial intelligence, but he died in 1954 after apparently committing suicide. After being prosecuted for homosexual activities after the war, he was forced to undergo ‘chemical castration’ as an alternative to prison. It took until 2009 for the prime minister, then Gordon Brown, to make an official public apology for Turing’s treatment at the hands of the British government.Building a Galaxy With CodeModern browsers, smartphones, tablets | More inspirational videos featuring role models and celebrities More inspirational videos featuring professionals in technology fields
Wartime codebreaker Alan Turing is set to be pardoned posthumously for his criminal conviction for homosexuality.The Government will not stand in the way of new legislation needed to pardon him and it could be passed within three months, it was confirmed yesterday.While Gordon Brown gave a public apology for his cruel treatment in 2009, at the time ministers said it was not possible to overturn his 1952 conviction for gross indecency. Pardon: Professor Stephen Hawking is among 11 signatories of a letter urging David Cameron to forgive Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing's conviction for the then crime of homosexuality in 1952 Mr Turing, a brilliant mathematician, helped Britain win the Second World War through his work at Bletchley Park, where he invented the machine which cracked the Enigma codes used by German U-boats in the Atlantic. But despite his crucial work – which some historians believe may have shortened the war by two years – Mr Turing was convicted of gross indecency for having a relationship with a 19-year-old.
At that time homosexuality was illegal, and he chose to be chemically castrated with injections of female hormones rather than go to jail. He committed suicide two years later. Heritage: A sculpture of mathematician Alan Turing at the Bletchley Park museum where he had been head of a code-breaking unit Codebreaking: Alan Turing led a team at Bletchley Park (pictured) to read and crack Nazi codes using the above computing machine, saving thousands of lives in WWII In the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, a whip, said the Government would not stand in the way of a Bill brought by Liberal Democrat peer Lord Sharkey, which offers him a full parliamentary pardon.He said: ‘The Government know that Turing was a hero and a very great man. They acknowledge that he was cruelly treated. They must have seen the esteem in which he is held.‘The Government therefore is very aware of the cause to pardon Turing given his outstanding achievement and therefore has great sympathy with the objective of the Bill.’
If there were no amendments, the bill could be passed in the House of Commons as early as October, he said. Top secret: Turning ran a team codenamed Station X and used the above description machines to break German codes trabsmitted on complex devices called Enigma machinesThe director of GCHQ has apologised for the agency's prejudice against gay people, including the 'horrifying' treatment of Alan Turing (pictured)The director of GCHQ has apologised for the agency's historic discrimination against gay people, including the 'horrifying' treatment of Alan Turing.Robert Hannigan said he was sorry for the ban on homosexual people joining the organisation, which remained in place into the 1990s.He said that for decades the agency had failed to learn lessons from the treatment of the Bletchley Park codebreaker, who was hounded from the secret service over his sexuality.In a rare public appearance, Mr Hannigan described how a former spy, 'Ian', was forced out of the service on suspicion of being gay in the 1960s.
He said: 'I am happy to do so today and to say how sorry I am that he and so many others were treated in this way, right up until the 1990s when the policy was rightly changed.'The fact that it was common practice for decades reflected the intolerance of the times and the pressures of the Cold War, but it does not make it any less wrong and we should apologise for it.'Their suffering was our loss and it was the nation's loss too because we cannot know what Ian and others who were dismissed would have gone on to do and achieve. 'We did not learn our lesson from Turing.'Turing was convicted of gross indecency over his relationship with another man in 1952 and ordered to undergo chemical castration. He took his own life two years later. The famous codebreaker, known as the father of the modern computer, finally received a royal pardon in 2013.Turing, who worked for the GCHQ forerunner the Government Code and Cypher School, led the famous Bletchley Park codebreakers who cracked the Enigma, an encryption device used by the Nazis.