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Fri 09 Sep 2009Code-breaker whose heroic work should be celebrated
NET RESULTS:Alan Turing, whose brilliant device helped decipher Nazi codes, is the father of modern computer science, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON
SEVENTY YEARS ago this week, a shy young mathematician named Alan Turing arrived at an old mansion called Bletchley Park, to take up a cryptanalytic position at this unlikely headquarters for the ultra-secret code-breaking efforts of the second World War.
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