Pledge “alanturingbust”
"I will donate £5 for a bust of Alan Turing in Cambridge but only if 150 other Cambridge students and alumni will do the same."
— Petition for a bust of Alan Turing in Cambridge, Cambridge students and alumni (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 30th November 2009
164 people signed up (14 over target)
Country: United Kingdom
Place: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (view map)
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Currently the only memorial to Alan Turing in Cambridge is a black and white photograph in a basement. Turing's hugely important work in computer science has gone largely under-recognised. He also had a crucial role in winning the war for the Allies, which lent his subsequent arrest and persecution for homosexuality, (which led to suicide) a very bitter irony.
If you haven't joined the facebook group, do it now for updates and information about the progress we've made so far:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15...
There is currently a campaign for Turing to be pardoned. Our campaign (unaffiliated with that) would be to challenge the university to match funding pledged by students to put up a small bust of Turing with a plaque commemorating his life and achievements.
The BBC have a great article about Turing's pardon campaign. There has been an apology by the prime minister in response to the 30,000 signatures on the petition:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/82...
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- As a former member of the Signals Intelligence branch of the British Army Intelligence Corps, the achievements of Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park need no introduction to me. Neglected in life, he deserves to be celebrated now.Simon Halliday, 9 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
- This man is the father of computer science.Faheem Merchant, 6 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
Current signatories (
= they've done it)
Petition for a bust of Alan Turing in Cambridge, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Daniel Summerbell
- John Chew
- Emily Hebbron
- Gareth Hebbron
- Tom West
- James Ross
- Art Ramirez
- Daniel Weston
- Tessa Champion
- Emily Tesh
- David H H Mack
- Niklas Smith
- Catherine Lough
- Jillian Wilkinson
- Katherine McDonald
- Richard Manns
- Louise Anthony
- D. Myelnikov
- Jenny Crowhurst
- Anders Aufderhorst
- Stuart Fraser
- Charlie Reams
- Oliver Hallam
- Katriel Cohn-Gordon
- Philip Tromans
- Milos Puzovic
- Greg Chadwick
- David Tattersall
- Edith Lai
- Gayle Goh
- Jenny Slade
- Beth Swingler
- Fayola Phillip
- Grey Baker
- Eley Williams
- Peter Fox
- Julien Domercq
- Ben Reeve
- Jess Allen
- Samuel Coldicutt
- Madge Dresser
- Thomas Athorne
- Ed Willson
- S. Dooley
- Eleanor Evans
- Christopher Jefferson
- Rachel Hewitt
- Hans Hüttel
- Mike Gordon
- Frank Stajano
- Jonathan Anderson
- Robin Message
- Richard Bergmair
- Alex Mendelson
- Ebbe Elsborg, PhD
- Michael McLeod
- William Carter
- Richard Cook
- Alex Helliwell
- Brian Haughey
- Chloë Brown
- Josie Fielding
- Raymond Li
- Mads Torgersen
- Timothy Nathan
- Joe Farrington
- Simon Nathan
- Anand Buddhdev
- Ben Gadsby
- Rani Selvarajah
- Rosamond Brown
- Thomas Barfield
- Philip Sterne
- R A Beagrie
- Helen Young
- Grace Parker
- Øistein E. Andersen
- Victor Stepien
- Mark Newman
- Annie Burman
- Andrew Kay
- Richard Lussier
- Caroline Hepburn
- Ruslan Kudubayev
- Emily Coghill
- Chris Wilson
- Cameron Foote
- Rosemary Stefaniuk
- Rahul Mansigani
- Aidan Baker
- James Aylett
- L Barber
- Vorn Hancock
- Tim Morley
- Stewart McTavish
- Paulo G. Castro
- Richard Bradley
- David MacKay
- Alex Kennedy
- Lucy Delap
- Christopher Geissler
- Denis Collins
- Thomas Oliver
- Simon Halliday
- Paul Merchant
- Nick Gates
- Peter Silke
- Jacob Shephard
- Derek Ho
- Elizabeth Coker
- Nicholas Tufnell
- Sheryl Wombell
- Alex Lodge
- Tom Leyland
- Eddy Ashton
- Tobias Powell
- Jatinder Sahota
- Adam Kirby
- Phil Howe
- Duncan Brannan
- Jeff
- Theodore Hong
- Harry Maxwell
- Christopher O'Donnell
- Peter mcQuail
- Tom Walters
- Andrew Singleton
- Chloe Chan
- Carsten Varming
- Sebastian Palmer
- Marcos Pelenur
- Natasha Hurley-Walker
- Alice Burman
- Peter Wendes
- Axel Gelfert
- Paul Syers
- nick hyrka
- 27 people who did not want to give their names, 2 of whom have done the pledge
