前一阵子的请愿活动的结果。
PM apology after Turing petition
Alan Turing is said to be the founder of computer science
Gordon Brown has said he is sorry for the "appalling" way World War II code-breaker Alan Turing was treated for being gay.
A petition on the No 10 website had called for a posthumous government apology to the computer pioneer.
In 1952 Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a man. Two years later he killed himself.
The campaign was the idea of computer scientist John Graham-Cumming.
He was seeking an apology for the way the mathematician was treated after his conviction. He also wrote to the Queen to ask for Turing to be awarded a posthumous knighthood.
The campaign was backed by author Ian McEwan, scientist Richard Dawkins and gay-rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. The petition posted on the Downing Street website attracted thousands of signatures.
Mr Brown, writing in the Telegraph newspaper, said: "While Mr Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him."
National legacy
He said Mr Turing deserved recognition for his contribution to humankind.
In the statement he said: "So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved so much better."
A niece of Mr Turing, Inagh Payne, said that at the time she had no idea about his contribution to the war effort because he kept his work "hush-hush".
She was also unaware of his sexuality and his prosecution as the family "kept mum about that sort of thing". She said she was "very grateful" for the apology.
"We realise now that he was gay and we think he was treated abominably," she said.
It's fantastic there has been an apology, says Dr Sue Black of Saving Bletchley Park
Welcoming Mr Brown's move, Peter Tatchell of gay rights group Outrage! said a similar apology was also due to the estimated 100,000 British men who suffered similar treatment.
"Singling out Turing just because he is famous is wrong," he said.
Alan Turing was given experimental chemical castration as a "treatment" and his security privileges were removed, meaning he could not continue to work for the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
He is most famous for his code-breaking work at Bletchley Park during WWII, helping to create the Bombe that cracked messages enciphered with the German Enigma machines.
However, he also made significant contributions to the emerging fields of artificial intelligence and computing.
In 1936 he established the conceptual and philosophical basis for the rise of computers in a seminal paper called On Computable Numbers and in 1950 he devised a test to measure the intelligence of a machine. Today it is known as the Turing Test.
After the war he worked at many institutions including the University of Manchester, where he worked on the Manchester Mark 1, one of the first recognisable modern computers.
There is a memorial statue of him in Manchester's Sackville Gardens which was unveiled in 2001.
- Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/12/2009
我有一个同事当时在曼彻斯特念数学系本科。和他谈过图灵,他说曼大对他挺照顾的,但不知为什么他就自杀了。
Criminalizing certain sexual behaviors in private by the government is cruel. It is hard to imagine this actually happened only a few decades ago in UK, supposedly one of the most civilized countries... - posted on 09/12/2009
gz wrote:
我有一个同事当时在曼彻斯特念数学系本科。和他谈过图灵,他说曼大对他挺照顾的,但不知为什么他就自杀了。
Criminalizing certain sexual behaviors in private by the government is cruel. It is hard to imagine this actually happened only a few decades ago in UK, supposedly one of the most civilized countries...
很难说那个国家的文明程度就更高,法国的女性是在上个世纪60年代才有的选举权,中国的女性在宪法上的平等地位49年就有了,没准儿还更早,辛亥革命。 - posted on 09/13/2009
Did you work on the campaign? Thanks.
It is indeed incredible to think how barbaric the British society was just 50 years ago (not that any other countries were doing any better then, and a lot are doing worse now in human rights). The forced female hormone injections seem such a violation of an individual and so wrong by today's standard.
BTW, abee is not 冷血 at all. She is a true intellectual: learned, worldly but not cynical:-).
小蜜蜂 wrote:
前一阵子的请愿活动的结果。
- Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/13/2009
这倒是大实话,在选举权上,中国男女平等。
虽然不论男女大家都没有选举权。
好在中国人脾气好, 有修养, 不像伊朗人一样,为个选举这屁大的事儿闹得社会不和谐。
雪 wrote:
很难说那个国家的文明程度就更高,法国的女性是在上个世纪60年代才有的选举权,中国的女性在宪法上的平等地位49年就有了,没准儿还更早,辛亥革命。 - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/13/2009
夹缝好。 - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/13/2009
星月,我只是转贴了一个新闻。
图林那事算是PETITION, 还不是MOVEMENT.
- Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/14/2009
嘿,蜂王好!I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU HERE!
好久不见。你怎么也来这里了?
waspking wrote:
夹缝好。 - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/14/2009
听说你在这, 俺就来了。
俺大部时间在天涯小站。
你的大作在什么杂志要发? 祝贺!
夹缝 wrote:
嘿,蜂王好!I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU HERE!
好久不见。你怎么也来这里了?
waspking wrote:
夹缝好。 - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/14/2009
英国政府不行,中国政府就从来不用道歉,因为从来不犯错误。;) - posted on 09/15/2009
没去过天涯小站,觉得自己上一个网站都有点忙不过来了,要试试慢慢戒网, 把时间留给相机。
我那片是在本地的刊物上发表的,知道自己是票友水平,不值一SHOW。
你最近又有什么片子发表吗?
蜂王应该是已知的在CND上的色友里, 在刊物上发表相片最多的了,大师级。咖啡这儿有条摄影线, 有空过来聊聊?
waspking wrote:
听说你在这, 俺就来了。
俺大部时间在天涯小站。
你的大作在什么杂志要发? 祝贺!
夹缝 wrote:
嘿,蜂王好!I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU HERE!
好久不见。你怎么也来这里了?
waspking wrote:
夹缝好。 - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/15/2009
夹缝好。 今天在小站跟人打架了。
俺只会拍蜂。 最近在国际小蜜摄影赛上得了第二名。 800欧元, 到手600刀左右(那么多的税?)。
俺去过LA几次, 没有你的联系电话。 下次要一起拍多好啊? 俺们都有D700. - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/15/2009
waspking wrote:
夹缝好。 今天在小站跟人打架了。
咖啡成避难所了哈,你们外面打架完了,就到这儿喘气儿了。你跟谁又干架了? - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/16/2009
第一次跟观天下
第二次跟一个叫雾雨的, 有人说TA是CND上的新笑月。
- Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/16/2009
如果真能把咖啡办成人所周知的避难所,老板娘就发达了。
maya wrote:
咖啡成避难所了哈,你们外面打架完了,就到这儿喘气儿了。你跟谁又干架了? - posted on 09/16/2009
恭喜蜂王,又获大奖。蜂王拍蜂,近水楼台,真正的专家。新片子给我们SHOW一下吧。
除了在自家后院拍几张人像外,从去年底至今,我还没有去拍过任何东西,惭愧。今年特忙,已经几件事一起干颇有点MANIAC了,估计年底前我是没时间的啦。正打算戒网。
有空俺找你去,有你单位的电话。
网上打架,常有的事。若我在天涯,很有可能加入你一伙,去和新笑月打一架了,哈哈。
waspking wrote:
第一次跟观天下
第二次跟一个叫雾雨的, 有人说TA是CND上的新笑月。
- Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/16/2009
D700可以说是拍小蜜蜂的最佳机型,高ISO表现好过所有的相机,而且比D3轻。恭喜蜂王换新机。
上一幅ZT来的片子,:)
又一幅: - posted on 09/16/2009
谢谢夹缝的ZT. 俺D700好像没有照出比D70好的相片。
这是两张在国内照 的:
中锋在正骨草上
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_rP8_lOb93UE/SiXK6MtZwuI/AAAAAAAACLU/fjqCwEehf48/s800/ZAC_8374.JPG>
中锋在月光花上
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_rP8_lOb93UE/SiXInT-VCII/AAAAAAAACLI/SQLPxlVXv0w/s800/ZAC_8257.jpg> - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/17/2009
好蜂! - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/17/2009
夹缝 wrote:能说说摄影家为什么喜欢拍蜂?居然还有国际大赛?
恭喜蜂王,又获大奖。蜂王拍蜂,近水楼台,真正的专家。新片子给我们SHOW一下吧。
- Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/17/2009
除了摄影/发表蜜蜂摄影作品以外,蜂王本人是个任教于美国某大学的生物学家,在美国专业刊物上发表过60多篇科技论文,其中很大部分是有关蜜蜂的。
详情可以问蜂王自己。:)
雪 wrote:
夹缝 wrote:能说说摄影家为什么喜欢拍蜂?居然还有国际大赛?
恭喜蜂王,又获大奖。蜂王拍蜂,近水楼台,真正的专家。新片子给我们SHOW一下吧。
- posted on 09/17/2009
谢大夫。因为我自己是很害怕蜜蜂的。
被蜇过。
你这么一说我明白了,原来是专业兴趣的延伸,就是俗话说的科学和人文的完美结合:)。如同上个月去看眼科医生,他在诊所等候室支了一个屏幕,播放自己拍摄的摄影作品,塞纳河上的某一个桥洞,街角的某一处风景,观察入微,捕捉到的光影很奇特,察常人所未察,所以能做眼科大夫。
夹缝 wrote:
除了摄影/发表蜜蜂摄影作品以外,蜂王本人是个任教于美国某大学的生物学家,在美国专业刊物上发表过60多篇科技论文,其中很大部分是有关蜜蜂的。
详情可以问蜂王自己。:)
雪 wrote:
夹缝 wrote:能说说摄影家为什么喜欢拍蜂?居然还有国际大赛?
恭喜蜂王,又获大奖。蜂王拍蜂,近水楼台,真正的专家。新片子给我们SHOW一下吧。
- Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/17/2009
夹缝,
请来E, 俺还有几天又要参加学校的摄影比赛了。 请提意见。
email is bees.msu at gmail dot com.
Thanks. - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/19/2009
SURE. My pleasure!
Tommorow I'll be out of town. I will do it on Suanday. (I just forgot the username of my e-mail on mayacafe. So gotta get a new one.)
wapsking wrote:
夹缝,
请来E, 俺还有几天又要参加学校的摄影比赛了。 请提意见。
email is bees.msu at gmail dot com.
Thanks. - Re: 英国政府正式向图林道歉posted on 09/19/2009
夹缝, 见新线。。。俺把照片都搬了来。。。
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