Supporters are clicking on a new e-petition for the man whose brilliance underlies the laptops, mobiles and computer world which we often take for granted
Andrew Collins eagerly gets out his reading glasses for the new series of The Killing which started this week on BBC4; finds a depressing fascination in modern-day Marie Antoinette Tamara Ecclestone on Channel 5; and is treated to the ultimately tragic story of codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing not once but twice - in the same programme - on Channel 4
25 Nov 2011: Letters: Britain's Greatest Codebreaker didn't, indeed couldn't, establish a complete picture of Alan Turing, for example his considerable gift for friendship and his compassion
20 Nov 2011:
Young Apprentice | The Choir: Military Wives | Britain's Greatest Codebreaker | The Boarding School Bomber | American Horror Story | Slavery: A 21st Century Evil
28 May 2011: Letters: Of course, Google is too close to both the Obama and Cameron administrations and this is not good, much as it wasn't so good a decade ago when Microsoft was in a similar position
We take the ability to multi-task on our computers for granted, but it all started with the Pilot Ace Computer and the genius of mathematician Alan Turing