{"id":35,"date":"2012-06-28T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=35"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:24:00","slug":"alan-turings-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/alan-turings-100th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Turing&#8217;s 100th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-medium wp-image-34\" title=\"ATY.logo5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/06\/ATY.logo5_-e1340906542417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34 alignleft\" title=\"ATY.logo5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/06\/ATY.logo5_-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Turing Year Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turingcentenary.eu\/\">The Alan Turing\u00a0 Year<\/a>: \u201cDuring 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.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/turing\">Nature News Special: Alan Turing at 100<\/a>: from February 23, 2012 &#8211; \u201c<em>Nature<\/em> celebrates the mind that, in a handful of papers over a tragically short lifetime, shaped many of the hottest fields in science today.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turingarchive.org\/\">The Turing Digital Archive<\/a>: \u201cThis archive contains many of Turing&#8217;s letters, talks, photographs and unpublished papers, as well as memoirs and obituaries written about him.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&#8217;s College, Cambridge.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanturing.net\/\">AlanTuring.net<\/a>: \u201cLargest 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.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/search?q=su%3ATuring%2C+Alan+Mathison%2C+1912-1954.&amp;qt=hot_subject\">Books about Alan Turing at McGill Library<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/search?q=au%3ATuring%2C+Alan+Mathison&amp;qt=results_page&amp;dblist=638\">books by Alan Turing at McGill Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Take a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turing_test\">Turing Test<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turinghub.com\/\">Turing Hub<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.library.mcgill.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/go.galegroup.com\/ps\/i.do?id=GALE|CX2830904391&amp;v=2.1&amp;u=crepuq_mcgill&amp;it=r&amp;p=GVRL&amp;sw=w\">Alan Mathison Turing<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy.library.mcgill.ca\/login?url=http:\/\/galenet.galegroup.com\/servlet\/eBooks?ste=22&amp;docNum=CX2830999999&amp;q=crepuq_mcgill\">Dictionary of Scientific Biography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turingloom.com\/\">100 Punchcard Turing Machine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turing_machine\">Turing machine Wikipedia entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/\">Bletchley Park<\/a>: &#8220;Historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Image the ATY logo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turingcentenary.eu\/\">The Alan Turing Year<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0 Year: \u201cDuring his relatively brief life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/alan-turings-100th-birthday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-alan-turing","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}