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Bullshit (to the claim that Turing was virtual unknown). I had no idea Turing was gay when the man became synonymous to Finite State Machines and was one of the

• Chinjut 10y ago
  If you were in a software engineering uni program, then you were around well after the timescale the OP is talking about, I believe; I think their claim is more to the often-promulgated idea that Turing was a major figure in the development of electronic computers as we know them who ought be heralded as "The Father of Computers", as he is now often portrayed in pop science.
  • bmarkovic 10y ago
    My objections were to his idea that Turing was virtual unknown who somehow got recognition because he was gay. I was in SE uni program in the 90s, but "Turing-complete", "Turing test" and FSMs with references to him were there in theory textbooks written in the socialist 80s. For example, a friend's mom was a professor in medical school of my university, and a textbook from the same era in his house was pretty darn assured that homosexuality is a mental illness that needs to be treated in a mental institution together with alcoholism and drug additcion.