Catalogue description Press cuttings, articles and obituaries

This record is held by Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre

Details of AMT/K/5
Reference: AMT/K/5
Title: Press cuttings, articles and obituaries
Description:

The file comprises:-

 

- 16 press cuttings on ACE [Automatic Computing Engine], AMT's athletics, and obituaries of AMT;

 

- typescript and copy typescript by Mrs Turing of an obituary notice for AMT from National Physical Laboratory, Teddington;

 

- typescript copy by Mrs Turing of an article on AMT from 'Nature', 18 Sept. 1954, by R. O. Gandy;

 

- photocopy of 'Man Viewed as a Machine' by John G. Kemeny in 'Scientific American', Apr. 1955, pp. 58-67;

 

- 'Tekhnika Molodezhi', Apr. 1955, pp. 7-10, containing an article on the Turing machine; the file also contains a typescript translation of this article ('Can "thinking" machines solve any problem?' by V. Pekelis), translated by H. J. Norton, 4 May 1960.

 

- 'King's College Annual Report', 1954, containing an obituary of AMT on pp.5-6. See online copies at the Turing Digital Archive

Date: 1946-1960
Held by: Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 17 items in envelope paper

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