Description
External view of the entrance to the Alan Turing Building on the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. The Building was originally opened as the Mathematics block in 1973. In 2010 it was officially renamed the Alan Turing Building. Alan Turing (1916-1954), described as 'the father of computer science', was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist who was a main participant in the code-breaking work at Bletchley Park, not far from the Open University campus.
Metadata describing this Open University historical image
Date: 2018
Copyright: Rights owned or controlled by The Open University
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Location: Open University, Milton Keynes
Photographer: Amanda Saladine
Available to public: yes