Alan Turing at Princeton University

By Zach Donnell on May 3, 2012, noon

Alan Turing, who earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938, is considered the father of computer science.

Considered the father of computer science, Alan Turing earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1938. In this video Andrew Appel, chair of the Department of Computer Science, discusses Turing's legacy. Princeton is hosting a conference May 10-12 in honor of the centennial of Turing's birth. Featured speakers include Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, a 1976 Princeton alumnus, and eight winners of the Turing Award (the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in the field of computing). Registration to the conference is free and open to the public.

Video: Student work: Underwater robotics .

Princeton seniors David Clifton and David Heinz spent a summer testing a robot called the "beluga" in engineering professor Naomi Leonard's laboratory.

Honoring past computer science great, Schmidt looks forward .

Computer science is among the most forward-looking of disciplines, and in an address at Princeton University on Thursday evening, May 10, Eric Schmidt paid tribute to Alan Turing, one of the giants of the field, by looking ahead to an almost unimaginable future.

Prospect House spaces dedicated for ‘exemplary individuals’ who helped to shape the University and the world .

The renovated rooms, dining spaces, library and terrace have been named in honor of 12 people with connections to Princeton's history who persevered and excelled in myriad ways.

Princeton will commission new portraits to update and diversify University collection .

Princeton will commission new portraits of alumni and former faculty and administrators. The expansion of the campus portrait collection is one of several University initiatives to tell Princeton’s history more fully and diversify campus spaces.

Prospect House spaces will be named for 12 people who ‘helped shape the University and the world’ .

Those honored include faculty, alumni and others with connections to Princeton’s history. The new room names were based on recommendations from the CPUC Committee on Naming.

Doorways of Princeton .

These 20 distinctive doorways at Princeton University span more than 700 years of architectural styles.