Alan Turing - Tributes By Universities

Tributes By Universities

• The Turing Room at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics houses a bust of Turing by Eduardo Paolozzi, and a set (#42/50) of his Turing prints (2000).
• The University of Surrey has a statue of Turing on their main piazza and one of the buildings of Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences is named after him.
• Istanbul Bilgi University organises an annual conference on the theory of computation called "Turing Days".
• The University of Texas at Austin has an honours computer science programme named the Turing Scholars.
• In the early 1960s Stanford University named the sole lecture room of the Polya Hall Mathematics building "Alan Turing Auditorium".
• One of the amphitheatres of the Computer Science department (LIFL) at the University of Lille in Northern France is named in honour of Alan M. Turing (the other amphitheatre is named after Kurt Gödel).
• The Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, the University of Buenos Aires, the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia, King's College, Cambridge, Bangor University in Wales, the Universities of Ghent and Mons in Belgium, the University of Turin (Università degli Studi di Torino), the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, and Keele University have computer laboratories named after Turing.
• The University of Manchester, the Open University, Oxford Brookes University and Aarhus University (in Aarhus, Denmark) all have buildings named after Turing.
• Alan Turing Road in the Surrey Research Park is named for Alan Turing.
• Carnegie Mellon University has a granite bench, situated in the Hornbostel Mall, with the name "A. M. Turing" carved across the top, "Read" down the left leg, and "Write" down the other.
• The École Internationale des Sciences du Traitement de l'Information has named its recently acquired third building "Turing".
• The University of Oregon has a bust of Turing on the side of the Deschutes Hall, the computer science building.
• The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has a road and a square named after Alan Turing (Chemin de Alan Turing and Place de Alan Turing).