Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954) was a British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer.

Recognition

On 23 June 1998, on what would have been Turing's 86th birthday, Andrew Hodges, his biographer, unveiled an official English Heritage Blue Plaque on his birthplace in Warrington Crescent, London, now the Colonnade hotel http://www.turing.org.uk/bio/oration.html, http://www.blueplaque.com/detail.php?plaque_id=348.

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23 June - 1998 - English Heritage - Blue Plaque - London

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A statue of Turing was unveiled in Manchester

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Statue of Turing - Manchester

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on June 23 2001. It is in Sackville Park, between the University of Manchester building on Whitworth Street and the Canal Street gay village. To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, a memorial plaque was unveiled at his former residence, Hollymeade, in Wilmslow on June 7 2004.

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June 23 - 2001 - Sackville Park - University of Manchester - Canal Street - Gay village - June 7 - 2004

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The Turing Award is given by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person for technical contributions to the computing community. It is widely considered to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the computing world.

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Turing Award - Association for Computing Machinery - Nobel Prize

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The Alan Turing Institute was initiated by UMIST and University of Manchester in Summer 2004.

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Alan Turing Institute - UMIST - University of Manchester

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A celebration of Turing's life and achievements was held at the University of Manchester on 5 June 2004; it was arranged by the British Logic Colloquium and the British Society for the History of Mathematics.

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University of Manchester - 5 June - 2004 - British Logic Colloquium - British Society for the History of Mathematics

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On October 28 2004 a bronze statue of Alan Turing sculpted by John W. Mills was unveiled at the University of Surrey http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/press/oct2004/281004a/. The statue marks the 50th anniversary of Turing's death. It portrays Turing carrying his books across the campus.

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October 28 - 2004 - John W. Mills - University of Surrey

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Holtsoft produces a programming language named for Turing. The language is designed for beginner programmers and has no direct access to the hardware.

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