Alan Turing Year

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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 Association for Computing Machinery 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.

Events included the 2012 Computability in Europe conference, as well as Turing Centenary activities organized or sponsored by the British Computer Society, the Association for Symbolic Logic, British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science, the British Society for the History of Mathematics, the Association for Computing Machinery, British Logic Colloquium, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, the Computer Conservation Society, the Computer Society of India, the Bletchley Park Trust, the European Association for Computer Science Logic, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, International Association for Computing and Philosophy, the Department of Philosophy at De La Salle University-Manila, the John Templeton Foundation, the Kurt Gödel Society, the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, the Science Museum, and Turing100in2012.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100114151842/http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm Turing100in2012]}}. The Alan Turing Centenary Conference was held at the University of Manchester during June 2012.

Alan Turing Year is known on Twitter as Alan Turing Years. @alanturingyear.

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;Author of {{Citation | last = Hodges | first = Andrew | author-link = Andrew Hodges | year = 1992 | title = Alan Turing: The Enigma | publication-place = London, UK

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Examples include:

• The Royal Mail issued a UK commemorative stamp for the Turing Centenary.{{Cite news|date=2012-01-24|title=Bletchley Park marks Alan Turing centenary with stamp issue|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-16688942|access-date=2020-10-29}}
• The Imitation Game: how Benedict Cumberbatch brought Turing to life, The Guardian, Tuesday, 7 October 2014.{{Cite news

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• De-coding the Turing family, Prof. S. Barry Cooper, The Guardian, Tue 17 April 2012.{{Cite news

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• Alan Turing Year - the Establishment still doesn't get it, Prof. S. Barry Cooper, The Guardian, Tuesday, 22 January 2013.{{Cite web

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• Alan Turing and the bullying of Britain's geeks, Prof. S. Barry Cooper, The Guardian, Wednesday, 20 June 2012.{{Cite news

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• Playing Monopoly with Alan Turing, Prof. S. Barry Cooper, The Guardian, Monday, 24 September 2012.{{Cite web

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• Alan Turing: "I am building a brain." Half a century later, its successor beat Kasparov, Prof. S. Barry Cooper, The Guardian, Monday 14 May 2012.{{Cite news

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• Google doodle becomes an enigma in honour of Alan Turing, The Daily Telegraph, Saturday 23 June 2012.{{Cite web|title=Google doodle becomes an enigma in honour of Alan Turing|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/9351293/Google-doodle-becomes-an-enigma-in-honour-of-Alan-Turing.html|access-date=2020-10-29|website=The Telegraph|language=en-GB}}
• Blinc digital arts festival's tribute to Alan Turing, BBC News, Saturday, 27 October 2012.{{Cite news|date=2012-10-27|title=Blinc digital arts festival's tribute to Alan Turing|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-20106206|access-date=2020-10-29}}
• The other Turing test: Codebreaker's beloved Monopoly pays him the ultimate compliment, The Independent, Saturday 8 September 2012.{{Cite web|date=2012-09-07|title=The other Turing test: Codebreaker's beloved Monopoly pays him the ultimate compliment|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/other-turing-test-codebreaker-s-beloved-monopoly-pays-him-ultimate-compliment-8118217.html|access-date=2020-10-29|website=The Independent|language=en}}
• Maths and nature link 'proven' by Manchester scientists, BBC News, 28 October 2012.{{Cite news|date=2012-10-28|title=Maths and nature link 'proven' by Manchester scientists|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-20116508|access-date=2020-10-29}}
• How did the leopard get its spots? Codebreaker Alan Turing was right all along, The Daily Telegraph.{{Cite web|title=How did the leopard get its spots? Codebreaker Alan Turing was right all along|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/9093910/How-did-the-leopard-get-its-spots-Codebreaker-Alan-Turing-was-right-all-along.html|access-date=2020-10-29|website=The Telegraph|language=en-GB}}
• The Queen hails 'genius' of Alan Turing on visit to WWII codebreaking HQ at Bletchley Park, Manchester Evening News, Friday, 15 July 2011.{{Cite web|date=2011-07-15|title=The Queen hails 'genius' of Alan Turing on visit to WWII codebreaking HQ at Bletchley Park|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/the-queen-hails-genius-of-alan-turing-1214082|access-date=2020-10-29|website=Manchester Evening News|language=en}}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.turingcentenary.eu/ Alan Turing Year/TCAC website]
• [http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?999 Alan Turing Year 2012 at mathcomp]
• [http://cs.swan.ac.uk/cie12/ CiE 2012:Turing Centenary Conference website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716163131/http://cs.swan.ac.uk/cie12/ |date=16 July 2011 }} at the University of Cambridge
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160313104219/http://turing.pilosopiya.com/ Turing 2012: The Life and Works of Alan Turing] at De La Salle University-Manila
• [https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenarybangalore/ The State of Computing: Turing Centenary Conference] in Bangalore, India
• [http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk Turing 100: Alan Turing Centenary Conference] at the University of Manchester

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