The Turing Year: Celebrating Alan Turing’s 100th Birthday

published on June 22, 2012

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Alan Mathison Turing, born on June 23, 1912, was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

In honor of his 100th birthday, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has released the film Le modèle Turing celebrating his life and work. You can watch an excerpt of the film below (in French) and view more information on the film at: http://videotheque.cnrs.fr/doc=2975

For more information on the Alan Turing Year please visit http://www.turingcentenary.eu
Turing 2012 Conference in France: http://www.turing2012.fr/

Director: Catherine Bernstein - Production : CNRS Images et Inria

Students from the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon built a computer with Legos based on the Turing model:

The Turing Machine Comes True by CNRS