Ken's Turing Lecture was republished recently in March/June 2007 as Volume 35, Issue 1-2 or the APL Quote-Quad.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1234321.1234322&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=22213405&CFTOKEN=22653326 I understand that this was not simply an image of the 1979 CACM paper but a re-type(set) version. So either the ACM would have the text, or the editors of the APL Quote-Quote at the time would have the text. ----- Original Message ----- From: Devon McCormick <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:53 Subject: [Jgeneral] Copy of Ken's Turing lecture in text format? To: J-general forum <[email protected]> > Hi - I'm working on a web page commemorating Ken's Turing award > and am > wondering if anyone has a copy of his lecture in a text format; > i.e. not the > PDF of images from the 1981 issue of Communications of the ACM, > which I > have. > > I'm currently typing it in but it's going to take a while. > Fortunately, for > the web page, I'll initially need only the introductory section, > which I've > already entered. Part of the difficulty of entering it is > the APL character > set (surprise) but I've decided that the APL385 Unicode font > will do for > this. Interestingly, one of the first "special" characters > was _not_ a > standard APL one - it's the double-headed arrow for "equivalence". > > In any case, I would like to get the whole lecture up in a more > searchableform. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
