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<p dir="ltr">On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:35 Mounier Kuhn <<a href="mailto:mounier@msh-paris.fr">mounier@msh-paris.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
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Pierre, <br>
That group Lars belonged to at FOA is legendary among programmers. OOP in the simula/smalltalk tradition, LISP as pure lambda calculus, and not least abstract data types, invaded lecture halls at Scandinavian universities in the 70s and 80s. Turing machine programming courses were on all big uni curricula until about a decade ago. Now you have to dig into compiler- or complexity theory courses to find the "abstract hackers". In the 90s I ran yearly competitions in TM programming (sob).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Lars, like many other people in that group at FOA is still active as an emeritus. He has two projects listed here:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">More on early Turing readers. I found out that a Swedish scholar, Dr. Lars Löfgren, had presented a paper on « Automata of High Complexity and Methods of Increasing their Reliability by Redundancy », at the<i> Congrès international de l’Automatique</i>, (Paris, 18-24 June 1956), published in 1959 in the proceedings, and again in <i>Information and Control</i>, vol. 1, n° 2, May 1958, p. 127-147. His paper summarized and discussed Alan Turing’s articles, « On computable numbers […] » (1936) et « Computing machinery and intelligence », <i>Mind</i> (1950), and of J. von Neumann (1951) and C.E. Shannon et J. McCarthy (1956) on Automata. Lars Löfgren worked for the Defense Institute in Stockholm, and eventually became professor of system theory at the University of Lund in 1963. He may be tagged as a "cybernetician". Any more information would be welcome !</p>
<p dir="ltr"> Merry Christmas to all,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Pierre<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Le 22 déc. 2014 à 19:07, Alberts, Gerard <<a href="mailto:G.Alberts@uva.nl">G.Alberts@uva.nl</a>> a écrit :<br></p>
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<blockquote><blockquote><p dir="ltr">Dear Dave,<br>
let us ask Edgar Daylight what he has to say on this. He and I did work on precisely this question for a while, but our findings did not yet reach the stage of formal publication. Basically the impression is that the Perlis and Carr gang, busy in creating a venue for exchange of software ideas (Communications of the ACM), went on to create a professional identity. Part of such effort, of course, is to name one's heroes. Probably from the US perspective pointing at the Englishman Turing was a safe choice. There is no indication that Turing was in any way the cult figure he is today.<br>
Edgar's bold entry question at the time was how many of the Turing awardees would have actually read the work of Turing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">An exceptionally early, and to my knowledge the earliest explicit computer science continuation on Turing's 1936 article is by E.F. Moore, 'A simplified universal Turing machine', in Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery; Meeting at Toronto, Ont. Sept 8-10, 1952 (Washington, ACM, 1952), 50-55.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Christmas thoughts,<br>
Gerard</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Hi,<br>
With all this emphasis on Turing these days, including the 100th<br>
anniversary celebration a couple of years ago and opinions about how<br>
fundamental Turing was to how much that came later, I am curious if<br>
anyone knows what the ACM people were thinking when they named their<br>
award after Turing only a decade or so after his death. Did they<br>
already see him as important historically as he is seen today? Did<br>
they think he had been a brilliant many whose life ended badly and<br>
who thus deserved memorializing? ...? I suppose there may have been<br>
some writing in the CACM when the award was named or first awarded,<br>
and I can go try to find that. In any case, I am wondering if anyone<br>
knows what the committee members (or whomever) who decided on this<br>
name for the award were thinking.<br>
Dave<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">At 11:54 AM 12/21/2014, Dag Spicer wrote:</p>
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