1952年,计算机科学奠基人艾伦·图灵受到英国法律制裁——他因同性恋被控“严重猥亵”罪,要么入狱,要么接受荷尔蒙注射。选择了后者的图灵两年后弃世,身旁放着一个咬了的染氰化钾的苹果。今天,广泛享受着计算机世界创造的巨大福利的人们,未必知道图灵,但只要回望这个世界的由来,在碰见“计算机之父”、美国人冯·诺依曼前,会先遇上英国人图灵。诺依曼曾谦逊地表示,图 In 1952, Alan Turing, the founder of computer science, was punishable by British law - he was either jailed or given an injection of hormones for being charged with “serious indecency” for homosexuality. Two years after Turing, who chose the latter, died, with a bite of potassium cyanide apples beside him. Today, those who enjoy extensive benefits created by the computer world may not necessarily know Turing, but only look back at the origin of this world and encounter before von Neumann, the “Father of Computers,” Turing on the English. Neumann had modestly said that figure