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SUMMARY:100 years of Alan Turing\, 1000000 years of the computer - Andrew 
 Hodges\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Bjarki Holm
DESCRIPTION:Alan Turing was born a century ago. Just sixty-four years \nag
 o\, in 1948\, a first very small stored-program digital computer was \nwor
 king at Manchester. In between lies an extraordinary story.  Alan \nTuring
 's 1936 concept of a universal machine provided the theory of \nthe modern
  computer. The secret codebreaking triumphs of wartime \nBletchley Park\, 
 also led by Alan Turing's work\, showed the practical \npossibilities for 
 building it. Like any scientific story\, the \nemergence of the computer w
 as complex\, involving extensive \ncollaboration and competition. But Alan
  Turing's individual part in \nit has now achieved a special public recogn
 ition. One reason for this \nis his overarching concern to relate computin
 g to human nature. \nAnother lies in the drama of his own short life\, one
  with profound \nresonances of innocence and experience.
LOCATION:Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site
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