UK Celebrations
Among the keystone events there was a three-day conference in Manchester, UK in June; a two-day conference in San Francisco, California, organized by the ACM; and a birthday party and Turing Centenary Conference in Cambridge organised at King's College, Cambridge and the University of Cambridge, the latter organized by the association Computability in Europe.
The Science Museum in London launched a free exhibition devoted to Turing's life and achievements in June 2012, to run until July 2013. In February 2012, the Royal Mail issued a stamp featuring Turing as part its "Britons of Distinction" series. The London 2012 Olympic Torch flame was passed on in front of Turing's statue in Sackville Gardens, Manchester, on the evening of 23 June 2012, the 100th anniversary of his birth.
On 22 June 2012 Manchester City Council, in partnership with the Lesbian & Gay Foundation launched The Alan Turing Memorial Award which will recognise individuals or groups who have made a significant contribution to the fight against homophobia in Manchester.
Previous celebrations of Turing's life and achievements include an event arranged by the British Logic Colloquium and the British Society for the History of Mathematics which was held on 5 June 2000.
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