Alan Turing Centennial

For more information, please contact:

Robert Sedgewick (rs@cs.princeton.edu)

Jon Edwards (jedwards@princeton.edu)

• Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, will deliver a public address to cap the first day's events on May 10 at 8:00 p.m.  
• Be sure to check out this video, Turing's Legacy to Computer Science at Princeton, featuring Andrew Appel, Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University. Cudos to Director, Producer Teresa Riordan!
• All Turing Centennial talks will be simulcast at www.princeton.edu/webmedia and recorded for later sharing.
• The Princeton University Press is publishing Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis, a reproduction and an examination of Turing's Princeton dissertation [with introductions by Andrew Appel and Solomon Feferman]. Available May 2012.
• Andrew Hodges is delivering the Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture tonight, April 23, 2012, an early kickoff for our Turing Centennial celebration. The lecture will take place in McCosh 50 and will begin at 8:00 pm.
• The Princeton University Press will also publish a new American edition of Andrew Hodges' book Alan Turing: The Enigma. Available May 2012. The book will have an updated preface by Andrew Hodges
• Through June 5 in its lobby, Firestone Library is hosting an exhibition: "Alan Turing's Thesis". Turing's Princeton dissertation and graduate file will be on display, as well as some historical background and commentary.
• The April 4 issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly contains a story about Turing at Princeton by Barksdale Maynard.   See also paw.princeton.edu/issues/2012/04/04/pages/5444/index.xml
• On May 2, 2012, at 4:30 pm in the Friend Center Convocation Room, the Department of Computer Science, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and LBGT at Princeton will co-sponsor a screening of a short film: Decoding Alan Turing, followed by a discussion. “Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, logician and cryptographer.   A Cambridge and Princeton graduate who was fundamental to cracking the Nazi's Enigma Code during WWII, Turing laid the foundation for the field of computer science. He was also gay. And he fell victim to the intolerance and legal prosecution of his time in the UK, which led to his death soon after. Join us for a screening of the short film about his life followed by a discussion. Refreshments will be provided.”

• For press and other information, please contact Jon Edwards (jedwards@princeton.edu) or Robert Sedgewick (rs@cs.princeton.edu).

Our sincere thanks to Laurel Cantor in the University's Office of Communication. Laurel turned Princeton's photo of Turing into our Centennial logo, which is actually composed from key portions of Turing's Princeton dissertation.