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Campaign Saves Unique Turing Archive

Posted by samzenpus on from the posterity-plan dept.

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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  1. Go by jamej · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go. Make friends in your chosen profession. Bring plenty of business cards - collect plenty of business cards. Keep them organized and make an effort to keep in touch. Learn from others. Put it on your resume. Go, even if it hurts. Go to at least one professional conference per year and repeat. This advice is from someone who just retired at age 53. Good luck. r/ jim