Turing Centennial Celebration at Princeton (fwd)

Sunday, 20 May 2012 09:21

Turing Centennial Celebration at Princeton
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Written by Historian   

During Alan Turing Year celebrations are being held all over the world; 
many in places Turing himself never visited. He did, however, spend two 
years at Princeton University which has just held a three-day conference 
to mark its association with Turing.

In 2008 Alan Turing was voted as the second most influential Princetonian 
in its history - top pf the poll was James Madison, Princeton's first 
graduate student in 1771 and President of the USA from 1809-1817. Turing 
was at Princeton for two years from 1936 and didn't really fit in. He 
wrote to his mother that it was hard to be recognized when Einstein and 
von Neumann were just down the hall..../snip/


http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/4244-princeton-turing-centennial-celebration.html


http://kaltura.princeton.edu/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_jv1jy2ot/uiconf_id/4421521

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x6Xog5HyIY8


http://www.princeton.edu/turing/index.xml

http://www.princeton.edu/turing/alan/history-of-computing-at-p/

https://webspace.princeton.edu/users/jedwards/Turing%20Centennial%202012/Mudd%20Archive%20files/12285_AC105_Turing_1938.pdf

https://webspace.princeton.edu/users/jedwards/Turing%20Centennial%202012/Mudd%20Archive%20files/12285_AC100_Turing_1938.pdf