A coin for Alan Turing

1) "careful thought will be given to your proposal". This is the response of Royal Mint UK2) "We will support the candidature of your proposal to the next meeting of technical and artistic commision." This is the response I received from the President of the Italian Mint.3) "We highly support Your idea". This is the answer of Polish Mint to my letter. The Polish Mint will forward our request for "A coin for Alan Turing" to the National Bank of Poland who is in charge to issue the coins4) Cronaca Numismatica, the most important italian numismatic magazine supports A coin for Alan Turing. In the january edition they have published my letter and their answer in supporting the petition

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Dear AllThe first letter to the Italian Mint has been sent. Next will be the Royal UK Mint. The text of letter is below. Given that I would like to contact at least French and Spanish Mints, I'm looking for volunteer for traslate in others language (french, spanish, german,..)You can put your translation here in the comments or put in the facebook page under discussion area http://www.facebook.com/coin4alanturing?v=app_2373072738Thank you Adriano Parracciani-------------------------------------------------------------Text of letter to MintsI would like to bring to your attention the initiative "A coin for Alan Turing."This is an international petition that asks European countries to issue a commemorative coin to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing in 2012.The petition is running online at web addresss: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/coin4alanturing where you can find evidence, information, and the full text of the petition which is also attached to this letter.At...

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Dear All. I would like to share with you the next steps. On January I will send formal letters to the national mints let them know about this petition and asking them to take into account our proposal. I will start with the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico Zecca dello Stato (IPZS) and then I would procede with mints of other european countries . Hoping in your help for translating the letter, let me know if anyone of you is in touch with local institutional representatives and could promote the petition with themAs soon as the first letter will be ready I'll let you knowRegardsAdriano Parracciani

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Looking for volunteer (who speak english better then me) who can produce a simple videoclip with the reading of petition . The videoclip will be loaded on youtube for promoting the campaign . Just put yourself in front of your webcam, start the recording and read the petition. At the end load your video in the facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Coin-for-Alan-Turing-Petition/115494545170570. Would be very nice to have videos in more languages ;-))

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We overcome the 500 signatures. The way is still long but this seems to me a very good result anyway. Thank you all. And now let's go ahead. Do not stop to Share your membership with your friends and invite them to sign using the link belowhttp://www.ipetitions.com/petition/coin4alanturing/

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Dear all, As you know this kind of initiative "from below" can aspire to be successful only with the numbers. Therefore it is fundamental the pro-activity of each of us, using word of mouth, and sharing with our networ.k.If you signed up, you'll want at least have some chance of success and this also depends on you.Alan Turing devised the so-called "Turing bombs," the first cries of computer, with which he managed to hyper-accelerate the process of decoding messages encrypted with the Nazi Enigma machine and then achieve success.We have the chance to act like as many small Turing bombs, to accelerate and facilitate the accession process and growing the community in support of the petition.How? Share your membership with your friends and invite them to sign using the link belowhttp://www.ipetitions.com/petition/coin4alanturing/You can promote the initiative with facebook, with emails, with your blogs and any other way you have in mind. With your help this...

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Una moneda de Alan TuringLos firmantes de esta petición pidiendo a los Estados de la UE para emitir una moneda conmemorativa para celebrar el centenario del nacimiento de Alan Turing en 2012.Alan Mathison Turing (Londres, 23 de junio de 1912 - Wilmslow, 7 de junio de 1954) fue matemático, lógico y criptoanalista, por su genio era posible derrotar a Enigma, los nazis de la máquina con código, y ganar la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Considerado uno de los más grandes matemáticos del siglo XX, con su obra, fundó la moderna ciencia de computadoras y sentó las bases de la Inteligencia Artificial. Después de la guerra diseñó ACE (Automatic Computing Engine), la primera computadora capaz de ejecutar un programa almacenado en la memoriaEn los años cincuenta fue perseguido por su homosexualidad y se vio obligado a la castración química para evitar la cárcel, el trato cruel con las hormonas le hizo crecer los pechos y le hizo impotente. El 7 de junio de...

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Thousands of people have had their face on a coin. We think this privilege have to be granted also to Alan Turing in 2012, centenary of his birth. Because the coin has to be also considered like a communication media, useful to spread an authoritative message, from nations who want non only say thank to Alan Turing, but also to share and take memory of his contribution

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Here you can find the FB pan pagehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Coin-for-Alan-Turing-Petition/115494545170570?ref=tsAdp

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Una moneta per Alan TuringI sottoscrittori di questa petizione chiedono agli stati dell'Unione Europea di emettere una moneta commemorativa in occasione del centenario della nascita di Alan Turing nel 2012.Alan Mathison Turing (Londra, 23 giugno 1912 – Wilmslow, 7 giugno 1954) è stato matematico, logico ed crittoanalista; grazie al suo genio è stato possibile sconfiggere Enigma, la macchina codificatrice dei nazisti, e vincere la seconda guerra mondiale. Considerato uno dei più grandi matematici del novecento, con il suo lavoro ha fondato la moderna scienza dei computer e posto le basi dell'Intelligenza Artificiale. Alla fine della guerra ha progettato ACE (Automatic Computing Engine), il primo computer in grado di eseguire un programma caricato in memoriaNegli anni cinquanta fu perseguitato per la sua omosessualità e costretto alla castrazione chimica per evitare la prigione; il crudele trattamento a base di ormoni gli fece crescere il seno e lo rese impotente. Il sette...

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