Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Turing Digital Archive. The Turing Digital Archive is an excellent collection of digitized facsimiles of historical source material from one of the pioneers of modern computing, Alan Turing. The archive is OAI-MHP compliant, and thus searchable through OAIster and other Open Archives Initiative metadata repositories. Quoting from the cover page: This digital archive contains mainly unpublished personal papers and photographs of Alan Turing from 1923-1972. The originals are in the Turing archive in King's College Cambridge. It contains letters, obituaries and memoirs written by colleagues and used by Sara Turing for her biography of her son (Heffers: Cambridge, 1959); talks and publications on the Automatic Computing Engine, his work at the National Physical Laboratory, the theories of computable numbers, digital computers, morphogenesis and the chemical development of cells. [Open Access News] 11:21:45 PM      Google It!.