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Happy Turing Year to All!

Many celebrations are being planned in 2012 to commemorate the centennial year of Alan Turing, one of the principal “fathers” of computer science, who was born in 1912. By coincidence, my own biological father and mother were also born in that year. I plan to make cameo appearances at ACM's event in San Francisco and at the major symposium in Manchester, both in June (see below).

For the secret of the Turing number 885205232, see pages 45 and 53 of Selected Papers on Fun and Games.

Check Out My Latest Book

This year I'm celebrating the recent completion of a book that I've dreamt about for many, many years:

Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth

(and you can discover more about it by clicking).

Public lectures in 2012

Although I must stay home most of the time and work on yet more books that I've promised to complete, I do occasionally get into speaking mode. Here is a current schedule of events that have been planned for this year so far:

Wednesday, January 11, 13:30pm at Schweizer Tag für den Informatikunterricht (STIU) in St. Gallen, Switzerland

Speaking briefly as I receive the “Ausbildungs- und Beratungszentrum für Informatikunterricht Platinum Gold Medal of Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich for Computer Science and Computer Science Education”

Saturday, January 14, 14:00pm in Audi Max at ETH Zürich

Speaking at Swiss Olympiad Day, "All Questions Answered" (watch video)

Friday, June 15

Participating in a panel at the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration

Monday June 18, or Tuesday June 19

Giving a keynote talk at the SAT 2012 Conference in Trento, Italy

Sunday June 24, plus-or-minus 2 days

speaking (impromptu) in connection with the banquet of The Alan Turing Centenary Conference in ManchesterUK

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