The Enigmatic Life of Alan Turing

The Enigmatic Life of Alan Turing

Author: Overnight Productions, Inc. January 14, 2025 Duration: 28:58
Before the dawn of the computer age brought Alan Turing’s work its rightful recognition, before the honors that were to come, we recognized his legacy and his tragic life in November of 1988. There are memorials and movies now, but then his World War II code-breaking triumph and his contributions to the development of of artificial intelligence was all but unknown (produced by Hugh Young and presented by Barry Empson). And in NewsWrap: Liechtenstein rings in 2025 with its first legal gay and lesbian marriages, Lithuania’s Constitutional Court strikes down its “no promo homo” law, the government of China jails three writers of the online “danmei” genre of gay male romance and sex stories, travel agent arrested in raids on Moscow gay nightspots found dead in prison, veterans booted from the U.S. military under anti-queer policies win a class action lawsuit against the Defense Department to get their discharges upgraded, , and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Michael LeBeau and Ava Davis (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the January 13, 2025 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

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