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The home of computer pioneer Alan Turing is up for sale and it could be yours for a cool £1.1m. Copper Folly on Adlington Road, Wilmslow - home of Turing, the brilliant mathematician and Nazi ...

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The BBC said the Government Communications Headquarters was releasing the papers on the occasion of the centenary of Turing's birth. The GCHQ is quoted as saying that the typed papers with handwritten ...

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A collection of rare scientific papers written by mathematician, computer scientist and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for a record £465,400 (€544,400) at auction in Lichfield, UK.