Alan Turing
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Nico Muhly takes on Alan Turing: 'No one wants a gay martyr oratorio'Composer’s new piece Sentences will focus on wartime codebreaker’s work – and it will not be The Imitation Game with stirring violins
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On my radar: Nico Muhly’s cultural highlightsThe US composer on obsessive collecting, being jetlagged at Bletchley Park and his love of the New Yorker
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Alan Turing’s relative calls on gay men to seek lifting of past convictionsOnly 65 of 49,000 prosecuted under outdated laws have so far had their records quashed
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Alan Turing notebook sells for more than $1m at New York auctionPaper thought to date from 1942 details Enigma codebreaker’s work on foundations of mathematical notation and computer science
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‘Turing got a pardon. I want one, too’Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing was posthumously pardoned for gross indecency, but thousands of British men’s lives are still blighted by similar charges. Their primary offence? Being gay. We hear their stories
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Homosexual pardon delayed as officials say it could benefit paedophilesLiberal Democrats pledge to pardon 49,000 men convicted before 1967 in any future coalition, while campaigners say warning about paedophiles is an excuse
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Benedict Cumberbatch: broaden Turing’s pardon to other gay menThe Imitation Game actor signs open letter calling for convictions of all 49,000 men found guilty of indecency to be wiped from the record
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The Bletchley Girls and The Debs of Bletchley Park – reviewThe tedium, the dashed hopes and the awful men: the lives and loves of the female codebreakers – and those with less glamorous jobs. By Lara Feigel
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Readers recommend: songs about secrets and secrecyHidden messages, furtive feelings, lyrical leaks, surreptitious spying, suggest your selections about the covert and hush-hush – it will all come out in song form, says Peter Kimpton
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Unseen Alan Turing notebook expected to fetch at least £1mFifty-six page manuscript, kept privately until now, goes up for sale in April with auctioneer expecting seven-figure sale
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Golden Globes 2015: a lively list to kick off the awards seasonPeter Bradshaw; With Birdman leading the way, the Globes nominations have picked out some impressive films to reward, even if Whiplash and Inherent Vice may consider themselves unlucky
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Homophobia victims deserve a memorialLetters: As we approach the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, is it time to ensure a memorial goes outside parliament to mark this legislation in memory of all those who suffered?
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Alan Turing Institute for Data Science to be based at British LibraryBig data research facility, dedicated to the codebreaker, will be at centre of new Knowledge Quarter in central London
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Artificial intelligence: how clever do we want our machines to be?The theory of artificial intelligence is already fact in some areas of life, yet as its importance grows, how do we ensure we control it rather than vice versa, asks Alex Hern
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The Imitation Game: how Alan Turing played dumb to fool US intelligenceDavid Cox: One of the few who knew that Bletchley had cracked Enigma was Ian Fleming – working in naval intelligence – but the Americans were kept in the dark
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Portrayal of Imitation Game 'baddy' is inaccurate, says familyNews: The relatives of Alastair Denniston, the commander at Bletchley Park where Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code, say that the biopic film makes an ‘unwarranted sideswipe’ at him
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Alan Turing was one of many heroes at Bletchley ParkLetters: Alan Turing was certainly not the only golden pebble on the Bletchley beach
Andy Burnham: men convicted for being gay should get automatic pardons