Campaign Saves Unique Turing Archive

99luftballon writes "A near-complete collection of Alan Turing's offprints have been bought for Bletchley Park following an online campaign and funds from Google and the UK government. They will go on display in the next few months. From the article: 'The collection contains offprints of 15 of Turing's 18 published papers assembled by his friend and colleague Max Newman. It includes Turing's first published paper, as well as his initial plans for computing and artificial intelligence.'"

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Waste of money based on big misunderstanding

[mikejuk]

This is crazy - so much money for papers that are available on the web for free and are simply offprints of journal articles - none of which have gone missing from the usual sources. You can even buy original copies from the web for tens of pounds. It seems this is a knee jerk reaction and a missunderstanding of the term "papers" - these are not litterary papers or personal papers but scientific papers with a few scribble that are in the main not even Turings! see: http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/2043-purchase-of-turing-papers-secured-for-bletchley-park-.html