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he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of
Mathematical Biology.Dani Prinz is the daughter of Dietrich G. Prinz (1903–89), a German computer scientist and pioneer who
developed the first implemented chess program in England in 1951. She was a spokesperson for the
Alan Turing Year in 2012 and was consulted by the producers of The Imitation Game, the 2014 film
based on the life of Alan Turing.
Diane Proudfoot is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She and Jack
Copeland founded the award-winning online Turing Archive for the History of Computing, the largest
web collection of digital facsimiles of original documents by Turing and other pioneers of computing,
and received a grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand for research into the philosophical foun-
dations of cognitive and computer science. She has published in the Journal of Philosophy, Artificial
Intelligence, Scientific American, and numerous other philosophy and science journals. Diane is co-
director of the Turing Centre at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, and also
Honorary Research Associate Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the
University of Queensland, Australia. In 2015–16 she was a Fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced
Studies and a member of the Computability: Historical, Logical and Philosophical Foundations
Research Group there.
Brian Randell is Emeritus Professor of Computing Science at Newcastle University, where he held the
Chair of Computing Science from 1969 to 2001 after several years at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research
Center. At Newcastle his research interests have centred on computer system dependability and
the history of computers. He edited the book The Origins of Digital Computers. His other publica-
tions on computer history include Ludgate’s Analytical Machine of 1909; On Alan Turing and the
Origins of Digital Computers; and The Colossus. He has a University of London DSc degree, and
Honorary Doctorates from the University of Rennes and the Institut Nationale Polytechnique de
Toulouse.
Bernard Richards is Emeritus Professor of Medical Informatics at the University of Manchester. He stud-
ied mathematics and physics for his first degree and for his Master’s degree he worked under Turing to
validate Turing’s theory of morphogenesis. After Turing died, he changed his research for his doctorate
and studied an aspect of optics, resulting in a Royal Society paper with his supervisor Professor Emil
Wolf, describing in full the diffraction of light passing through a convex lens. Thereafter his attention
turned to medicine: he produced the definitive paper on hormone peaks in the menstrual cycle, a
paper on the recovery from stroke, and more recently an expert system for use in open heart surgery
and another for use in the intensive care unit.
Jerry Roberts, MBE, (1920–2014) studied at University College London (UCL) from 1939 to 1941.
During the Second World War his UCL tutor Professor Willoughby recommended him to Bletchley
Park, where he was one of the four founder members of the Testery in October 1941, the group later
tasked with breaking ‘Tunny’, Hitler’s top-level cipher system. He was a senior codebreaker and linguist
at Bletchley Park from 1941 to 1945, and after the war was a member of the War Crimes Investigation
Unit. Thereafter he pursued a career in international marketing research for the next fifty years, includ-
ing running two of his own companies until sold to NOP. He spoke German, French, and Spanish
fluently and used them throughout his life. For the last five years of his life he worked hard to get better
recognition for his colleagues at Bletchley Park.
Oron Shagrir is Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, and currently the Vice Rector, at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. His areas of interest include the conceptual foundations
of (mainly computational) cognitive and brain sciences, history and philosophy of computing and
computability, and ‘supervenience’. His publications include Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church,