When i first looked at this photograph, i thought it was Ralf Hutter from Kraftwerk. Obviously not :P

A great man,but treated like crap by an ungreatful government!!!

Wow! - just wow!

Have posted pic of Books and Coffee Cup secreted in this 'ere sculpture: http://twitpic.com/501x9

Oh wow! Can´t believe I did not check on your most recent piccies. Most impressive! (At the risk of being kicked out - I know nothing about Alan Turing *blushes*, but will google, promised!) Hope you had a great "day out" !

I love this, I wrote an essay on Alan Turing @ uni, very interesting man!

There is a magnificent pun inherent in this sculpture. It is made of slate. In Swedish, slate is "skiffer" pronounced exactly as (still Swedish) "chiffer" which means code or cipher ...

A brilliant man his work on number theory was awesome

i can't beleive erectaset came up with something soooo awkward. sorry about the arse gravy

A suitable film of the man is 'Breaking the Code' starring Derek Jacobi. I think it was a TV film.

Good looking guy that Turing... did you guys know he's still important for designing digital libraries, today! Well done him!
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I'd like to leave a comment as well, but alas, I'm only a machine.

There's also a great statue of Turing in Guildford, striding across the University of Surrey

this is an amazing statue when you see in real life, made up of over a million pieces of slate. Truly stunning

Turing Award is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science. My ideal : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Marvellous! Many thanks!

Is there a way to posthumously knight him? (Not that that could undo the government's wrongs against him....)

This is stunning...will look him up to see more of his work...thanks for putting the photo up

As you say Stephen, one of the truly great Britons and, not unlike Tim Berners-Lee, virtually unknown. Where would we be without them?

Looks totally slated !