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From: kline@arizona.edu (Nick Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Alan Turing's birthday
Summary: Play of Turing's life being performed
Keywords: computer science
Message-ID: <12199@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 89 23:30:24 GMT
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Reply-To: kline@arizona.edu (Nick Kline)
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <112939@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
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>Turing was gay.  He stupidly mentioned this to a cop who was investigating
>a burglary and was prosecuted for it.  The court convicted him and
>sentenced him to "chemical castration"; they put him on drugs that
>completely shut down his sex drive.  The drugs had quite a number
>of unpleasant side effects, one of which is severe depression.  Turing
>committed suicide, probably as a consequence of the drugs.
>
>For the whole story, I *highly* reccomend "The Enigma, Alan Turing"
>which is an excelent biography of Turing.  There was also a play, "Breaking
>the Code" written about him, also excelent.


This play is currently being performed at the Univ. of Arizona by the 
Summer Drama Program. Opened to rave reviews ("if you go to one play
this year, you should go to see this one").

It'll be playing July 2, 6 and 8 at 8 pm and July 1, 8 and 9 at 2 pm at
the Drama Bldg., and admission is $5 for students.

---
    "Computer Scientists are at the top of the nerd heap" - Curtis Dyreson

Nick Kline, Univ. of Az., Computer Science, Tucson, AZ 85721
(kline@arizona.edu -or- {noao|allegra|cmcl2}!arizona!kline)