纪念计算机科学之父艾伦•图灵100周年诞辰_BEC初级作文

纪念计算机科学之父艾伦•图灵100周年诞辰

毫无疑问，图灵是促进英国在二战中取得胜利的重要因素，同时也是二十世纪最伟大的人物之一。他的努力促进了战争的早日结束，挽救了数百万人的生命。

And yet, he was treated badly. A burglary at his home led Turing to admit to police that he was a practicing homosexual, at a time when it was illegal in Britain. This led to his arrest and conviction in 1952 for ‘gross indecency’. Turing was subsequently forced to choose between imprisonment and chemical castration. He chose chemical castration. As a result of his conviction he lost security clearance and was not allowed to continue his work.

然而，他却受到了不公正对待。一件发生在他家里的盗窃案迫使他向警方承认他是同性恋，而在那时，同性恋在英国是违法的。他因此被捕，并于1952年因“严重猥亵行为”而定罪。最后，他被迫在监禁和化学阉割二者中做出选择，他选择了化学阉割。而因为这所谓的“罪行”，他失去了安全许可权利，工作也被迫中止。

On 8 June 1954 Turing was found dead and an inquest revealed he had poisoned himself with cyanide.

1954年6月8日，图灵死亡，判决认定他是食用氰化物自杀。

The US-based Association of Computing Machinery has given The Turing Award annually since 1966. It is the computing world’s highest honour for technical contribution to the computing community and considered equivalent to the Nobel prize.