The Alan Turing Bursary, which has the full backing of the Turing family, will be granted to a student wishing to continue their studies in computer sciences at any educational institution within the UK.
The student will also have the opportunity to undertake a week’s work experience shadowing the IT departments of both easyJet and Manchester Airport.
The chosen theme for this year’s Manchester Pride festival is ‘Queer’d Science’, in honour the 100th anniversary of codebreaker Alan Turing whose work at Bletchley Park helped crack the Nazi enigma cipher.
The computer pioneer was prosecuted for gross indecency for having relations with another man in 1952 when it was illegal. He was awarded with an OBE for his work and made a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Source: MEN
