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
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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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
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