Touring ? A brilliant engineer and mathematicial genius. Responsible for much of the primative computer systems used to break "Enigma" 1939/1945.

Homosexual, convicted of "indecency", and ostracised post war. Alan Turing took his own life.

His acheivements in early computing live on in the Turing Test, a means of measuring artificial intelligence. Basically, if you can have a threeway, or more, random 'Keyboard' conversation with an AI computer and a human control, and not be able to tell between the control and the AI - then that AI is "artificial intelligence"

I wonder what Turing would make of the Mudchat room - even without the, Ahem !, Hull contingent.

Gareth