ATY
Press and Media Contact -
Daniela Derbyshire
- email:
turing @ live.co.uk
New Year 2015 card designed for the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee by
Loke Lay and Winnie Fu, Hong Kong.
June 23, 2012,
was 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 was a world-wide celebration of Turing’s life
and scientific impact,
with a number of major events taking place throughout the year.
A number of these were linked to places with special significance in Turing’s life,
such as Cambridge, Manchester and Bletchley Park - while hundreds of
other events were hosted in over forty countries, commemorating Turing in every
continent outside Antarctica.
The Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (TCAC),
represented a range of expertise and organisational involvement in the 2012 celebrations, and
continues to play its role in the ensuing impact underpinning further
'Alan Turing Years'. The Committee's founder was Professor Barry Cooper, supported
by Computability in Europe, and a host of organisations and individuals, many represented
on this page.
We would be very grateful if those maintaining Turing webpages linked to here would
help us keep a record of this amazing period in the 'Turing Renaissance', and
make sure pages are archived, and we are notified of changed urls. Many thanks!
The Imitation Game - Official UK Teaser Trailer.
Comprehensive Coverage of Turing's Work with Commentaries by Over 70 World-Leading Experts.
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 UniversityS Barry Cooper (Leeds, Chair TCAC)
Author Computability Theory; Co-chair CiE 2012 -
Turing Centenary Conference; President
Computability in EuropeSamson 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)
Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL, 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 (
ATY
Press Contact
)
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 (archive))
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
Rachel
Hassall (Sherborne, Dorset)
School Archivist, Alan Turing Archive at Sherborne School 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 John Leech (Manchester)
MP for Manchester Withington; leading supporter of campaign for a full pardon for Alan Turing
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
Eva Navarro Lopez (Manchester)
Keeper of the History of the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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 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)
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 beyond, and news of these will
be circulated by TCAC members in all the different areas they represent.
Morten Tyldum, director of THE IMITATION GAME
interviewed about the making of the film, the choosing of the creative team, his commitment to the story of
Alan Turing, and his pride in the
movie
that has emerged. Part of a panel discussion with other members of the team, filmed in three parts at Telluride Film Festival in August 2014.
Parliamentary Private Members' Debate by Dr Julian Huppert MP:
Centenary of the birth of Alan Turing -
In Westminster Hall,
on Wednesday 27 June at 2.29pm. Ended at 4.57pm
Talk by Prof Philip Maini on Turing's Theory of Developmental Pattern Formation, as part of the
Turing Research Symposium,
organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
and the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics
on Friday 11 May 2012 at the
Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh.
Information Pioneers was a campaign from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, seeking
to show how the contributions of five very
different people helped to shape the information
society that we live in today.
One of five short films, created by an award-winning production team,
this one features Kate Russell explaining how Alan
Turing contributed to the
information revolution that changed all our lives.
BCS members helped to choose who to profile from a very long list. Following voting,
Alan Turing emerged as leading Information
Pioneer
with 38.8 percent of the vote,
more than twice the votes received by any of the other five remarkable pioneers.
(Voting
has now finished, of course.)
To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the birth of the world renowned mathematician,
code breaker, logician and computer scientist,
the first ICO Alan Turing Lecture was held at the
Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester on Tuesday 11 September 2012.
Introduced by Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, the inaugural
lecture was delivered by distinguished Cambridge historian
Professor Christopher Andrew,
the official historian of MI5, who discussed the life and work of Turing.
Director Maria Elisabetta Marelli interviewed (on Italian TV) about her multimedia theatrical event
TURING -
a staged case history, performed to sold-out
performances, Piccolo Theatre, Milan, Nvember 20 - 25, 2012 - see
further background and videos from this
spectacular and
meticulously researched production.
Luncheon talk on Alan Turing at HK Convention Centre on 21 Nov 2012. Part of the program in the 2012 HK International Computer
Conference organised by the HK computer society. Speaker: Prof YB Yeung, who also played the Turing song composed by HK writer
Miss Loke Lay on the harmonica.
Original card created by members of Hong Kong Alan Turing Year team
- Loke Lay, Winnie Fu, Cpak Ming and Honsan Awong -
for the 84th anniversary of the death of Christopher Morcom,
Alan Turing's 'first and only love'.
Original New Year 2015 card designed for the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee by
Loke Lay, with technical and artistic input from BeWoks, Hong Kong.
Original and semantically complex New Year 2014 card designed for the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee by
Loke Lay, with technical and artistic input from BeWoks, Hong Kong.
Playwriight Catrin Fflur Huws talks about how she came to write
her play To Kill a Machine, about the wartime code-breaker Alan Turing,
whose pioneering work considered
whether a machine could think. At the heart of the play is a powerful love story which
questions the meaning
of humanity, and the importance of freedom.
Turing Birthday Card by
American artist Debbie Ericsson-Zenith:
'I wanted to connect him to the English queen and his
relationship with UK government and how his legacy effects
the queen today .. I wanted to connect him with queen's
everywhere, royal and otherwise.'
This portrait head of Alan Turing was sculpted by
Alan Dun in
tribute.
To link to this
webpage
