Alan Turing, the father of modern computing and A.I., will be the face of the U.K.’s new £50 note
Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney revealed that WWII codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing will be featured on the new polymer note by the end of 2021. The currency will be the last in the Bank of England collection to switch from paper to polymer.
Turing is credited with providing the theoretical underpinnings for the modern computer, the Bank noted, but he was even more famous for devising code-breaking machines for the Allies to decipher Nazi messages during WWII that is believed to have helped shorten the war by two to four years, likely saving millions of lives.
Former Manchester MP and gay rights campaigner John Leech, who campaigned for Turing’s pardon, told the BBC that being honored on the new pound note is, “a fitting and welcome tribute to a true Manchester hero. But more importantly, I hope it will serve as a stark and rightfully painful reminder of what we lost in Turing, and what we risk when we allow that kind of hateful ideology to win.”
Turing’s £50 note celebrates his pioneering work with computers, and uses a 1951 photo of him that is part of the Photographs Collection at the National Portrait Gallery, along with a table and mathematical formula from his 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers,” aka “the Turing machine,” which is widely recognized as being a foundation of computer science.
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