Turing and the apple.

Don't know how far or deep the movie goes, but 41-year-old Turing took his life after humiliation and estrogen castration for his illegal homosexuality. He ate an apple laced with cyanide.

Urban legend has it that the Apple Inc. logo honors Turing's accomplishment in the computing world. A good story, but denied by the artist who drew up the symbol for Jobs and Wozniak. The familiar bite mark was put in for scale.

This is a fascinating person who is now receiving a lot of post-due consideration and appreciation for his work, after getting his official pardon for being gay 50 years after his death. Better late than never just doesn't get traction here. He saved thousands of lives, and quite possibly allowed Allies to win the war. It's good to see part of his life put into film.

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Topic - "The Imitation Game:" the story of Alan Turing, a candidate for inventor of the modern computer, - tinear 16:57:00 12/28/14 (13)

Liked it .... - reelsmith. 20:02:01 12/29/14 (0)

The MI6 dude and the commander were excellent as were the other crypto dudes. Nt - geoffkait 11:54:52 12/29/14 (0)

Also take a look at the Codebreaker - Victor Khomenko 07:27:53 12/29/14 (9)

RE: Also take a look at the Codebreaker - geoffkait 12:44:13 12/29/14 (8)

Not quite so - Victor Khomenko 13:40:51 12/29/14 (7)

That might be true but - geoffkait 14:11:42 12/29/14 (6)

That is all well documented - Victor Khomenko 14:19:18 12/29/14 (5)

The theory of relativity was built somewhat on what others had done before, nevertheless... - geoffkait 14:41:29 12/29/14 (4)

" It stopped the war" Avoid gross overstatements. - Victor Khomenko 15:06:13 12/29/14 (3)

MI6 doled out intelligence according to the statistical probabilities to avoid Nazi suspicion. - geoffkait 16:25:22 12/29/14 (2)

I have not seen the movie, and don't have any particular desire - Victor Khomenko 19:53:36 12/29/14 (1)

RE: I have not seen the movie, and don't have any particular desire - geoffkait 03:56:18 12/30/14 (0)

Turing and the apple. - free.ranger 17:55:27 12/28/14 (0)

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