Postcards from the Imagination

"Alan Mathison Turing, (23 June 1912–7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. [He] is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing was gay in a period when homosexual acts were illegal in Britain and homosexuality was regarded as a mental illness and subject to criminal sanctions... [Having been found guilty of] gross indeceny...[he] was given the choice between imprisonment and probation, conditional on his undergoing hormonal treatment designed to reduce libido." (Wikipedia)

"Two years later he was dead. The coroner reported suicide, but his mother was convinced it was an accidental death: she was always telling him to wash his hands when he was playing with cyanide. 'By the side of the bed was half an apple, out of which several bites had been taken.' And this queer tale does not end here. There are rainbow logos with Turing's missing bytes on every Apple Macintosh machine." (Sadie Plant, Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + The New Technoculture)