[Liverpool] Knight Turing?

[Bryn Pritchard]

I would counter sign. But the government doesn't draft the list does  
it? I always thought it was done by the Queens privvy council.

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On 11 Sep 2009, at 21:45, Simon Johnson <simon.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone think that rather than being sorry for the treatment of  
> Alan Turing, the government should knight him?
>
> He is to Computer Science what Newton is to Physics; he gave us the  
> mathematics with which we could understand programs. We shouldn't  
> just be sorry, we should recognise him for what he was: one of the  
> greatest scientists of all time!
>
> I'm putting a letter together that is addressed to the Prime  
> Minister asking Turing to be knighted. Who'd be willing to counter- 
> sign it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
>
>
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