[SIGCIS-Members] NY Review of Books: The Imitation Game -- a question

[Dave Walden]

Hi,
With all this emphasis on Turing these days, including the 100th 
anniversary celebration a couple of years ago and opinions about how 
fundamental Turing was to how much that came later, I am curious if 
anyone knows what the ACM people were thinking when they named their 
award after Turing only a decade or so after his death.  Did they 
already see him as important historically as he is seen today? Did 
they think he had been a brilliant many whose life ended badly and 
who thus deserved memorializing?  ...?  I suppose there may have been 
some writing in the CACM when the award was named or first awarded, 
and I can go try to find that.  In any case, I am wondering if anyone 
knows what the committee members (or whomever) who decided on this 
name for the award were thinking.
Dave


At 11:54 AM 12/21/2014, Dag Spicer wrote:
>http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/dec/19/poor-imitation-alan-turing/
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>Dag
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