Last Saturday marked 100 years since the birth of mathematician and computer scientist Alan Mathison Turing on June 23, 1912. On this occasion, I offer some Turing touring of the Internet:
- The Alan Turing Year: “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.”
- Nature News Special: Alan Turing at 100: from February 23, 2012 – “Nature celebrates the mind that, in a handful of papers over a tragically short lifetime, shaped many of the hottest fields in science today.”
- The Turing Digital Archive: “This archive contains many of Turing’s letters, talks, photographs and unpublished papers, as well as memoirs and obituaries written about him. It contains images of the original documents that are held in the Turing collection at King’s College, Cambridge.”
- AlanTuring.net: “Largest web collection of digital facsimiles of original documents by Turing and other pioneers of computing. Plus articles about Turing and his work, including Artificial Intelligence.”
- Books about Alan Turing at McGill Library and books by Alan Turing at McGill Library
- Take a Turing Test at the Turing Hub
- Alan Mathison Turing from the Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- 100 Punchcard Turing Machine
- Turing machine Wikipedia entry
- Bletchley Park: “Historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer.”
Image the ATY logo from The Alan Turing Year