Alan Turing

• Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker born 100 years ago on 23 June, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed.
(DAILY KOS)
• June 23rd is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, father of computer science and artificial intelligence, who committed suicide just shy of 42.
(Daily Beast)
• If Alan Turing had not existed, would we have had to invent him? The question seems to answer itself: Alan Turing very much did exist, and yet we have persisted in inventing him still.
(BBC News)
• Ivana said she was from Russia, which would help explain her idiosyncratic English. But there was something else that was odd about her prose.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• A New Zealand professor has argued the great British code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing may not have committed suicide as is believed.
(New Zealand Herald)
• Alan Turing is being honored with a Google doodle this weekend on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the pioneering British computer scientist and father of artificial intelligence.
(PC Magazine)
• The 40-year-old man appeared disheveled, even unkempt — his hair uncombed, his pants hitched up with string — when he approached the 19-year-old male on the sidewalk in front of the Regal Cinema in Manchester, England, in December 1951.
(The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog))
• Alan Turing would have turned 100 this week, an event that would have, no doubt, been greeted with all manner of pomp -- the centennial of a man whose mid-century concepts would set the stage for modern computing.
(engadget)
• Celebrations of Alan Turings life and work reach a peak this week with the centenary of his birth. The chair of the project, Professor S.
(The Guardian)
• Every one of you reading this owes a huge debt to a man born 100 years ago today, and who died far too young. Alan Turing was his name, and he was an eccentric mathematical and computer genius.
(Salon)