Alan Turing

• NEW YORK -- On Saturday, British mathematician Alan Turing would have turned 100 years old. It is barely fathomable to think that none of the computing power surrounding us today was around when he was born.
(it World Canada)
• 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)
• Google on Saturday challenged searchers to a puzzle in homage to what would have been Alan Turings 100th birthday. Turing, a brilliant British mathematician and codebreaker, worked for the British government during World War II.
(Huffington Post)
• 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)
• 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)
• Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. Sixty years ago, Alan Turing sat down to write a computer algorithm which could play a human at chess.
(Gizmodo Australia)
• Alan Turing was a code-breaker, a computer scientist, a mathematician, an ideas man. His work on breaking the code of the German naval Enigma machines at Bletchley Park in the 1940s is credited with considerably hastening the end of World War II.
(YAHOO!)
• 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)
• 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))