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JGC will be pleased as punch with this: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/1000-for-bletchley-park-thanks-to-geek.html http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/1000-for-bletchley-

by 0x12 15y ago

JGC will be pleased as punch with this: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/1000-for-bletchley-park-thanks-to-geek.html http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/1000-for-bletchley-park-thanks-t... Great to see that Bletchley Park will live on, it's one of very few historical sites that have meaning to those that are interested in our digital beginnings.

jgrahamc 15y ago
Yes, I am pleased as punch. Especially since when the Alan Turing petition was successful I bent the ear of the then Prime Minister about funding Bletchley Park. Not long after a small amount of lottery funding was announced that enabled them to make the bid for this larger amount. I don't know whether that was really because of me, but it doesn't matter. This news is great. Here's the email I sent to Downing St. summarizing the situation on September 11, 2009: Kirsty, As you can imagine I have an Inbox filled with media requests and congratulatory notes from around the world. A common theme in these mails is a desire to see a memorial of some kind to Alan Turing. Three suggestions (in order of popularity): 1. Find some way to fund Bletchley Park and the National Museum of Computing. 2. Use the Fourth Plinth for a Turing statue 3. Name the marathon at the 2012 Olympics after Turing (he was a very good marathon runner and it's his centenary in 2012). All of these are good suggestions. If the government did #1 you would have my full backing. John. It is bloody marvellous that they have got the money to improve the site. I triply love Bletchley Park because of: (a) The codebreakers part (b) The National Museum of Computing and (c) it is now the home of the National Radio Centre (for all the UK hams out there) and I studied to be a radio amateur there with MKARS.
- arethuza 15y ago
  I have to say, I really like the idea of using the Fourth Plinth for a statue of Turing - especially if the statue could somehow include some representation of his mathematical works.
  - tommorris 15y ago
    No, what it needs is at the base of the plinth a small screen and keyboard where you get connected to either a random anonymous person on the Internet or an AI, and you have to work out which one you are speaking to.
- bmunro 15y ago
  I had to look up the Fourth Plinth. It is an empty statue base in Trafalgar Square, London. It is presently used for temporary displays of artworks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_plinth,_Trafalgar_Square http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_plinth,_Trafalgar_Square

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jgrahamc 15y ago

Yes, I am pleased as punch. Especially since when the Alan Turing petition was successful I bent the ear of the then Prime Minister about funding Bletchley Park. Not long after a small amount of lottery funding was announced that enabled them to make the bid for this larger amount. I don't know whether that was really because of me, but it doesn't matter. This news is great. Here's the email I sent to Downing St. summarizing the situation on September 11, 2009: Kirsty, As you can imagine I have an Inbox filled with media requests and congratulatory notes from around the world. A common theme in these mails is a desire to see a memorial of some kind to Alan Turing. Three suggestions (in order of popularity): 1. Find some way to fund Bletchley Park and the National Museum of Computing. 2. Use the Fourth Plinth for a Turing statue 3. Name the marathon at the 2012 Olympics after Turing (he was a very good marathon runner and it's his centenary in 2012). All of these are good suggestions. If the government did #1 you would have my full backing. John. It is bloody marvellous that they have got the money to improve the site. I triply love Bletchley Park because of: (a) The codebreakers part (b) The National Museum of Computing and (c) it is now the home of the National Radio Centre (for all the UK hams out there) and I studied to be a radio amateur there with MKARS.

arethuza 15y ago
I have to say, I really like the idea of using the Fourth Plinth for a statue of Turing - especially if the statue could somehow include some representation of his mathematical works.
- tommorris 15y ago
  No, what it needs is at the base of the plinth a small screen and keyboard where you get connected to either a random anonymous person on the Internet or an AI, and you have to work out which one you are speaking to.
bmunro 15y ago
I had to look up the Fourth Plinth. It is an empty statue base in Trafalgar Square, London. It is presently used for temporary displays of artworks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_plinth,_Trafalgar_Square http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_plinth,_Trafalgar_Square