A quote by Turing, given in an interview to The Times newspaper in 1949: “This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and only the shadow of what is going to be.”.Technical drawings for the British Bombe, the machine specified by Turing and one of the primary tools used to break Enigma-enciphered messages during WWII.The trial model of Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine machine.The paper is considered foundational for computer science and included a description of the device now called the Turing Machine. A table and mathematical formulae from Turing’s 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem” (“decision problem”).The design on the reverse of the banknote will feature: In 2017, the Alan Turing Law was passed, which posthumously pardoned men cautioned or convicted under historical legislation that outlawed homosexual acts. Turing was posthumously pardoned by the Queen in 2013. He died two year later, at the age of 41, which an inquiry ruled as suicide. To avoid a prison sentence, he was chemically castrated. Turing was convicted in 1952 of gross indecency for his relationship with a man. While Turing’s contribution to modern technology is now revered, he suffered during his lifetime as a consequence of his homosexuality, which was a crime at the time.
