The Alan Turing Year, 2012, marked the celebration of the life and scientific influence of Alan Turing during the centenary of his birth on 23 June 1912. Turing had an important influence on computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability and made important contributions to code-breaking during the Second World War. The Alan Turing Centenary Advisory committee (TCAC) was originally set up by Professor Barry Cooper[1]
A number of major events took place throughout the year. Some of these were linked to places with special significance in Turing's life, such as Cambridge University, the University of Manchester, Bletchley Park, Princeton University. The ACM was involved from June to September 2012. Twelve museums were involved including in Germany and Brazil. Artists, musicians and poets took part in the celebrations internationally.
Alan Turing Year is known on Twitter as Alan Turing Years. @alanturingyear.
Organisersedit
The Turing Year was coordinated by the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (TCAC), representing a range of expertise and organisational involvement in the 2012 celebrations. Members of TCAC include Honorary President, Sir John Dermot Turing; The Chair and founder of the committee, mathematician and author of Alan Turing - His Work and Impact S. Barry Cooper; Turing's biographer Andrew Hodges;[3]Wendy Hall, first person from outside North America elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008; Simon Singh;[4]Hugh Loebner sponsor of the Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence (annual science contest based on the famous Turing test) cyberneticist Kevin Warwick, author of 'March of the Machines' and 'I, Cyborg', and committee member Daniela Derbyshire, who is also handling international co-ordination of marketing and publicity.
^"Bletchley Park marks Alan Turing centenary with stamp issue". BBC News. 24 January 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^Cooper, Prof S. Barry (7 October 2014). "The Imitation Game: how Benedict Cumberbatch brought Turing to life". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^Cooper, Professor Barry (17 April 2012). "De-coding the Turing family". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^Cooper, S. Barry (22 January 2013). "Alan Turing Year - the Establishment still doesn't get it". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^Cooper, S. Barry (20 June 2012). "Alan Turing and the bullying of Britain's geeks". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^Cooper, S. Barry (24 September 2012). "Playing Monopoly with Alan Turing". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^Cooper, S. Barry (14 May 2012). "Alan Turing: "I am building a brain." Half a century later, its successor beat Kasparov". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^"Google doodle becomes an enigma in honour of Alan Turing". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^"Blinc digital arts festival's tribute to Alan Turing". BBC News. 27 October 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^"The other Turing test: Codebreaker's beloved Monopoly pays him the ultimate compliment". The Independent. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^"Maths and nature link 'proven' by Manchester scientists". BBC News. 28 October 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^"How did the leopard get its spots? Codebreaker Alan Turing was right all along". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^"The Queen hails 'genius' of Alan Turing on visit to WWII codebreaking HQ at Bletchley Park". Manchester Evening News. 15 July 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
External linksedit
Alan Turing Year/TCAC website
Alan Turing Year 2012 at mathcomp
CiE 2012:Turing Centenary Conference website Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine at the University of Cambridge
Turing 2012: The Life and Works of Alan Turing at De La Salle University-Manila
The State of Computing: Turing Centenary Conference in Bangalore, India
Turing 100: Alan Turing Centenary Conference at the University of Manchester