The driving force behind modern computers, Alan Turing was born a hundred years ago. He launched the digital age, founded the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence, and helped the British win WWII by cracking the Nazi "Enigma" codes. He was persecuted by British authorities for the crime of being homosexual, and committed suicide at age 41. His life ended tragically, but his brilliance lives in the computers we use every day. We celebrate the Alan Turing Year.
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To The Best of Our Knowledge: Alan Turing
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History of rioting in Britain - Late Night Live - 16 August 2011
Donald Thomas talks about criminality in Britain, boing back to the eighteenth century and puts the recent London riots into a historical context.
Guests:
Donald Thomas, Associate Research Professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University.Publications:
Title: Villain’s Paradise: A History of Britain’s Underworld
Author: Donald Thomas
Publisher: Pegasus Books (2006)Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly
Author: Donald Thomas
Publisher: Pegasus (2010)http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2011/3294070.htm
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin on WNYC
"Yale University’s Timothy Snyder discusses the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes, and looks at how both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain after World War II, leaving the history of mass killings there in darkness. In Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, he looks at what happened under totalitarianism, when Stalin killed millions of his own citizens and Hitler murdered six million Jews, as well as nearly as many other Europeans."
From http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/dec/10/bloodlands-europe-between-hitler-and-stalin/
This is the best book I’ve read on WWII in years, from a reading habit of nearly 100 books. It’s a side of the war only glimpse.