In honor of Gay Pri month, we highlight a number of LGBTQI+ puter science pneers who played important rol the velopment of morn puter and software technology.
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- GAY COMPUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG BEATS OUT MLK, MANLA AS BBC’S MOST INIC FIGURE OF 20TH CENTURY
- THE GREAT GAY COMPUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG
- ALAN TURG WAS A WAR HERO PROSECUTED FOR BEG GAY. HE FALLY GOT A PARDON.
- MANCHTER TO CELEBRATE CENTENARY OF GAY PUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG
- MEET NEW FACULTY: GREGORY GAY, PUTER SCIENCE, ENGEERG
GAY COMPUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG BEATS OUT MLK, MANLA AS BBC’S MOST INIC FIGURE OF 20TH CENTURY
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In honor of Gay Pri and the anniversary of Stonewall, we‘re highlightg a group of pneers of puter science: people who were (or are) lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Generally regard as the “father” of theoretil putg science and artificial telligence, Alan Turg is the name that most often to md when people thk about an fluential gay puter science pneer.
” Turg’s life had a tragic endg: arrted and prosecuted for “gross cency” when thori disvered he was gay, he mted suici by gtg cyani and died at the age of 41.
THE GREAT GAY COMPUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG
Alan Turg , known as the father of puter science or jt the father of puters, was also gay and an atheist. When I posted a "meme" statg that anyone who a puter should thank this man, the ments revealed nfn as to how his be... This page displays a blog entry. * gay computer scientist *
Strachey studied mathematics and physics at Kgs College, Cambridge, where he suffered a nervo breakdown durg his third year (which his sister attributed to his stggl to e to terms wh his homosexualy). In the early 1970s he beme volved wh the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), and the later part of his life beme more and more voted to gay rights activism.
ALAN TURG WAS A WAR HERO PROSECUTED FOR BEG GAY. HE FALLY GOT A PARDON.
The gay WWII hero, nsired to be the father of morn puter science, was prosecuted for homosexual acts * gay computer scientist *
Edh “Edie” Wdsor is bt known as a gay rights activist who was the lead platiff the landmark Supreme Court Case Uned Stat v.
MANCHTER TO CELEBRATE CENTENARY OF GAY PUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURG
Wdsor, which overturned Sectn 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and led to the legalizatn of gay marriage. In 2012, Hall me out as gay an article published Lux Magaze.
He was part of a group of fluential gay puter scientists. Land was openly bisexual, and an activist volved wh the Gay Liberatn Front durg the 1970s.
MEET NEW FACULTY: GREGORY GAY, PUTER SCIENCE, ENGEERG
I wanted to wre an article celebratg the works of the most fluential gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexual novators, ventors and scientists throughout history.