Alan Turing at Princeton University

By Zach Donnell on May 3, 2012, noon

Alan Turing, who earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938, is considered the father of computer science.

Considered the father of computer science, Alan Turing earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1938. In this video Andrew Appel, chair of the Department of Computer Science, discusses Turing's legacy. Princeton is hosting a conference May 10-12 in honor of the centennial of Turing's birth. Featured speakers include Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, a 1976 Princeton alumnus, and eight winners of the Turing Award (the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in the field of computing). Registration to the conference is free and open to the public.

Honoring past computer science great, Schmidt looks forward .

Computer science is among the most forward-looking of disciplines, and in an address at Princeton University on Thursday evening, May 10, Eric Schmidt paid tribute to Alan Turing, one of the giants of the field, by looking ahead to an almost unimaginable future.

Four new portraits serve as ‘visible expression of Princeton’ today .

Commissioned portraits of Denny Chin, Carl Fields, Robert Rivers and Alan Turing were unveiled Sept. 20 to the University community.

West to read from new book .

Cornel West, the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton, will read from his new book, "Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom," at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, in the Prospect House Garden Room.

Video: Student work: Underwater robotics .

Princeton seniors David Clifton and David Heinz spent a summer testing a robot called the "beluga" in engineering professor Naomi Leonard's laboratory.

Princeton will commission new portraits to update and diversify University collection .

Princeton will commission new portraits of alumni and former faculty and administrators. The expansion of the campus portrait collection is one of several University initiatives to tell Princeton’s history more fully and diversify campus spaces.

Four-star general Christopher Cavoli and internet pioneer Robert Kahn to receive top alumni awards .

Cavoli, a member of the Class of 1987, will receive the Woodrow Wilson Award. Kahn, who earned his Ph.D. in 1964, will receive the James Madison Medal. The awards are presented on Alumni Day, to be held on campus Feb. 25.