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June 23, 2012, is the Centenary of Alan Turing’s birth in London. During his relatively brief life, Turing made a unique impact on the history of computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability.

2012 will be a celebration of Turing’s life and scientific impact, with a number of major events taking place throughout the year. Most of these will be linked to places with special significance in Turing’s life, such as Cambridge, Manchester and Bletchley Park.

The Turing Year is coordinated by the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (TCAC), representing a range of expertise and organisational involvement in the 2012 celebrations. Organisations and individuals wanting to contribute ideas or support for the Turing Year are invited to contact any of the current TCAC members.

Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (TCAC)

Sir John Dermot Turing (Honorary President)
12th Baronet of Foveran; Partner, Clifford Chance, London; son of Sir John Turing, and nephew of Alan Turing; at the Open University

S Barry Cooper (Leeds, Chair TCAC)
Author Computability Theory; Co-chair CiE 2012 - Turing Centenary Conference; President Computability in Europe

Samson Abramsky (Oxford, LICS)
FRS, and Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at Oxford

Matthew C. Applegate (Bletchley Park Trust)
Reprogrammer of vintage computer systems to create new music

Matthias Baaz (Vienna, Kurt Gödel Society)
General Secretary of the Kurt Gödel Society, organiser Horizons of Truth

John Barnden (Birmingham, SSAISB)
Co-chair 2012 AISB/IACAP World Congress, Birmingham, UK. Vice-chair AISB

Dante Barone (Porto Alegre, Brazil, Brazilian Alan Turing Year )
General Organiser, Brazilian Turing Year

Anthony Beavers (Evansville, IACAP)
Co-chair 2012 AISB/IACAP World Congress, Birmingham, UK. President elect IACAP

Arnold Beckmann (Swansea, Computability in Europe)
Membership Secretary of the Association Computability in Europe

Mark Bishop (London, SSAISB)
Reader in Cognitive Computing, Goldsmiths; Chair Elect, SSAISB

Jonathan Black (CS4FN)
Project Director, Computer Science for Fun Project (CS4FN)

Sue Black (London, Saving Bletchley Park)
IT Dept. Head at Westminster Univ., Force behind Saving Bletchley Park

Tilly Blyth (Science Museum)
Curator of Computing and Information at the Science Museum

Cornelia Boldyreff (Lincoln, BCSWomen)
Professor, University of East London and Honorary Secretary, BCSWomen

Alexandre Borovik (Manchester, LOGIC COLLOQUIUM 2012)
Co-organiser LC 2012, Author Mathematics under the Microscope

Martin Campbell-Kelly (Warwick, BSHM, ACM History Committee)
Author Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Council BSHM

Luca Cardelli (Cambridge, Microsoft Research)
FRS, ACM Fellow, 45th on CiteSeer list of most cited computer scientists

Walter Carnielli (Campinas, Brazil, SBL)
Author (w. R.L. Epstein) Computability, President Brazilian Logic Society

Jack Copeland (Canterbury, NZ, Turing Archive for the History of Computing)
Books inc: The Essential Turing; Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine

Ann Copestake (Cambridge, FoLLI)
Computational linguist, Cambridge & CSLI, Stanford; Vice-President FoLLI

Artur Czumaj (Warwick)
Head of Computer Science at Warwick University, Organiser ICALP 2012

Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, COMPUTABILITY in Europe 2012)
Professor Logic and Algorithms, Univ of Cambridge, Co-chair CiE 2012

Daniela Derbyshire (Dietrich Prinz Project)
Cross-Cultural Communication Consultant; daughter of Dietrich Prinz; ATY Press Contact, and Co-Chair TCAC Media Subcommittee

Rodney Downey (Wellington, NZ, Assn for Symbolic Logic)
Editor ASL volume on Turing Legacy; Author Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity

Anna Dumitriu (Sussex, Alan Turing Year ACC)
Co-chair TCAC Arts & Culture Committee; Director The Institute of Unnecessary Research

Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam, Bronstee.com)
ILLC, CiE Conference Series Steering Committee, Co-owner Bronstee.com

Jack Emery (Florida, The Drama House)
Producer of the prize-winning BBC TV film Breaking the Code, with Derek Jacobi as Alan Turing

Peter Fleischmann (Canterbury, British Math Colloquium)
Prof Univ of Kent at Canterbury, Org. 2012 British Mathematical Colloquium

Luciano Floridi (Hertfordshire/Oxford, IACAP, UNESCO Chair in ICE)
President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)

Michael Fourman (Edinburgh, British Computer Society)
Head of the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; Fellow of the BCS

Einar Fredriksson (Amsterdam, IOS Press)
Publisher of the Collected Works of A.M. Turing; Founder IOS Press. Editor A Century of Science Publishing

Marianne Freiberger (Cambridge, Plus Magazine )
Editor of Plus Magazine, introduces readers to `the beauty and practical applications of mathematics'

Ayako Fukui (John Templeton Foundation)
Program Officer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the Templeton Foundation

Steve Furber (Manchester, British Computer Society)
FRS, CBE, IET Faraday Medal, 2010 Millenium Technology Prize Laureate

Michael Gabbay (London, IFCoLog )
Director, Executive Board International Federation for Computational Logic (IFCoLog)

John Graham-Cumming (London, Turing Petition)
Author The Geek Atlas, GNU Make Unleashed, Turing Petition initiator

Rachel Greenhalgh (UK Mathematics Trust)
Director of the UK Mathematics Trust - organises UK's biggest national maths competitions

Kelsey Griffin (Bletchley Park Trust)
Director of Museum Operations at Bletchley Park, inc. Special Events

Wendy Hall (Southampton, ACM)
Elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2008

John Harper (Bletchley Park)
Leader Bombe Rebuild Project at Bletchley Park. Honorary Fellow of the BCS

Jane Hillston (Edinburgh)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. First recipient of BCS Roger Needham Award

Andrew Hodges (Oxford)
Author Alan Turing: The Enigma, creator of the Alan Turing Homepage

Toby Howard (Manchester)
Chair, UK Schools Computer Animation Competition

Simon Humphreys (Cambridge, Computing at School )
British Computer Society co-ordinator for Computing At School

J Martin E Hyland (Cambridge, British Logic Colloquium)
LMS General Secretary, President BLC, Fellow King's College, Head of Pure Maths (DPMMS)

Manfred Kerber (Birmingham, SSAISB)
Co-chair AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - Alan Turing 2012

Simon Lavington (Suffolk, Computer Conservation Soc)
Author Early British Computers etc; Cttee. Computer Conservation Society

Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht, European Assn for TCS, Informatics Europe)
Vice-President Informatics Europe, Council of EATCS & ACM Europe

David Levy (London, Loebner Prize, ICGA )
President Int. Computer Games Assn., Author Love and Sex With Robots etc.

Angsheng Li (Beijing)
Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chair TAMC conference steering cttee.

David Link (Leipzig)
Chair for Experimental Technologies in the Art Context at the Academy of Arts, Leipzig (HGB); Creator Manchester Mark I emulator

Hugh Loebner (East Orange, NJ, LOEBNER PRIZE 2012)
Sponsor of Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence, ``The First Turing Test"

Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam, Computability in Europe)
Founder member Computability in Europe, Chair CiE conf Steering Cttee.

Robert Lubarsky (Florida)
Organiser MAMLS (Mid-Atlantic Mathematical Logic Seminar) 2012 at Florida Atlantic University.

Angus Macintyre (London)
FRS, President London Mathematical Society, winner 2003 Pólya Prize

Johann A. Makowsky (Haifa, EACSL)
President of the European Association of Computer Science Logic (EACSL)

Bill Mitchell (British Computer Society)
Director, BCS Academy of Computing

Faron Moller (Swansea, BCTCS)
Fellow of the British Computer Society, President of the BCTCS

Carl Mummert (Huntington, WV)
Co-organiser, AMS-ASL Special Session on The Life and Legacy of Alan Turing

Kevin Murrell (Savience, Natl. Museum of Computing)
Secty. Computer Conservation Soc, Trustee TNMOC, Owner Savience

William Newman (London)
Author Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics and Interactive System Design. Elected ACM CHI Academy 2004

Jim Norton (British Computer Society, IET )
Chair of the IET IT Policy Panel, BCS Trustee and Vice-President

Jeff B Paris (Manchester)
Fellow British Academy, Author The Uncertain Reasoner's Companion

Andrew M Pitts (Cambridge)
Prof. of Theoretical Computer Science & Depty. Head of Dept, Cambridge

Bart Preneel (Leuven, IACR)
President Int. Assn. for Cryptologic Research (IACR), Manager ECRYPT II

Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester, BCTCS)
Editor Handbook of Spatial Logics, Organiser Turing centenary BCTCS

Daniel Rogers (Bletchley)
Artist, with a special focus on Turing and Bletchley Park subjects

Bernard Richards (Manchester, emeritus, BCSHealth)
Chair, BCS Health Informatics Cttee, Worked on morphogenesis with Turing

Norbert Ryska (Paderborn, Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum)
Director, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany

Lauren Schultz (Elsevier)
Publisher at Elsevier - owner of the copyright on the Collected Works of A. M. Turing

Robert Sedgewick (Princeton)
William O. Baker Professor, organiser Turing Centenary meeting, Princeton University

Huma Shah (Reading, TURING100 TURING TESTS)
Organiser TURING100in2012 - celebrating Alan Turing via a special Turing Test contest

Simon Singh (London)
Author, journalist, TV producer, specialising in science & mathematics

Elaine Stallard (Sherborne, Dorset)
Director of External Relations at Sherborne School

James Sumner (Manchester, NAHC)
Associate Director, UK National Archive for the History of Computing

Jonathan Swinton (Manchester)
Speaker, writer, and maintainer of key webpage on Turing and morphogenesis

Christof Teuscher (Los Alamos)
- Turing's Connectionism; Alan Turing: Life & Legacy of a Great Thinker

Wolfgang Thomas (Aachen, Gesellschaft für Informatik)
Speaker of Section Foundations of GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik); GI Executive Board member

John Tucker (Swansea)
Founder British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science

Irek Ulidowski (Leicester, CONCUR 2012, Newcastle)
Organiser Turing centenary 23rd International Conference on Concurrency Theory

Jouko Väänänen (Helsinki/Amsterdam, Assn for Symbolic Logic)
Treasurer, European Mathematical Society, Ex-chair ASL Cttee on Logic in Europe

Erwin van Lun (Amsterdam, Chatbots.org )
Futurist, CEO and Founder Chatbots.org

Keith van Rijsbergen (Glasgow)
Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Edinburgh, IEE, BCS, and ACM; key figure in setting up Turing Archive at King's

Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai (Trento)
Books: Computable Economics (OUP, 2000), Computability, Complexity and Constructivity in Economic Analysis etc.

Andrei Voronkov (Manchester)
Organiser Manchester Turing Centenary event, Creator EasyChair conference system

Marcelo Walter (Porto Alegre, Brazilian Computer Society )
Board member Brazilian Computer Society; organiser of the Brazilian Alan Turing Year

Kevin Warwick (Reading, TURING100 TURING TESTS)
Prof. of Cybernetics, FIET, Presenter Royal Inst. Christmas Lectures Rise of The Robots

Ian Watson (Auckland, The Universal Machine)
Author The Universal Machine - From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness + linked blog, promoter of all things Turing

John White (New York, ACM)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Chief Executive Officer; ACM President, 1990-92

Alex Wilkie (Manchester, Assn for Symbolic Logic)
FRS, and holder Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics at Manchester University

Mike Yates (Manchester, emeritus)
Seminal computability theorist, Alan Turing Collected Works editor for logic

Hector Zenil (Wolfram Research)
Active in Wolfram Science Group, brings Wolfram support to 2012

Jun Zhang (University of Michigan)
President, Society for Mathematical Psychology (2007-08)

"There isn't a discipline in science that Turing has not had an impact upon."

Please send us your support, and news of any Alan Turing Year events you would like us to publicise. There are many interesting and exciting activities in prospect for 2012, and news of these will be circulated by TCAC members in all the different areas they represent.


Drawing of Alan Turing by his mother, at his preparatory school, Hazelhurst, Sussex. Annotated by Mrs Turing 'sent to Miss Dunwall, matron at Hazelhurst. Date Spring term 1923.' Courtesy of ©Sherborne School.