One of my clients who came to Manchester a short jump ahead of Saddam Hussein's goon squads ended up finishing his PhD with someone who'd worked at Bletchley and also at Manchester with Turing (it's one of the six degrees of separation I'm proudest of, and I can get to Lenin in three) and the opinion of the Turing colleague was that while Turing was undoubtedly a great man, he doubted if he'd have passed the Turing Test in terms of human social interaction.
Three degrees of separation from Lenin and Turing! Wow!
I did rather get the impression from the book that Turing was distinctly Aspie. Even as a kid, his parents could tell he was going to have huge problems fitting in at school.
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I did rather get the impression from the book that Turing was distinctly Aspie. Even as a kid, his parents could tell he was going to have huge problems fitting in at school.