carrying his books across the campus, in 2006, Boston Pride named Turing their Honorary Grand Marshal.
Turing was one of four mathematicians examined in the 2008 BBC documentary entitled " Dangerous Knowledge ". The Princeton Alumni Weekly named Turing the second most significant alumnus in the history of Princeton University, second only to President James Madison. A 1.5-ton, life-size statue of Turing was unveiled on 19 June 2007 at Bletchley Park. Built from approximately half a million pieces of Welsh slate, it was sculpted by Stephen Kettle, having been commissioned by the late American billionaire Sidney Frank.
Turing has been honoured in various ways in Manchester, the city where he worked towards the end of his life. In 1994, a stretch of theA6010 road( the Manchester city intermediate ring road) was named " Alan Turing Way ". A bridge carrying this road was widened, and carries the name Alan Turing Bridge. Astatue of Turing was unveiled in Manchester on 23 June 2001 in Sackville Park, between the University of Manchester building on Whitworth Street and the Canal Street gay village. The memorial statue, depicts the " father of Computer Science " sitting on a bench at a central position in the park.
Turing is shown holding an apple symbol classically used to represent forbidden love, the object that inspired Isaac Newton ' s theory of gravitation, and the assumed means of Turing ' s own death. The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text ' Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954 ', and the motto ' Founder of Computer Science ' as it would appear if encoded by an Enigma machine: ' IEKYF ROMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ '.
A plinth at the statue ' s feet says ' Father of computer science, mathematician, logician, wartime codebreaker, victim of prejudice '. There is also a Bertrand Russell quotation saying ' Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.' The sculptor buried his old Amstrad computer, which was an early popular home computer, under the plinth, as a tribute to " the godfather of all modern computers ".
In 1999, Time Magazine named Turing as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and stated: " The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine." Turing is featured in the 1999 Neal Stephenson novel Cryptonomicon.
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