The group, Vardi says, is trying to bring all living Turing Award winners together in celebration of Alan Turing's life and work. The event will be held June 15-16 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

He predicts that the group will have about 32 Turing Award winners on hand, which he described as "an amazing opportunity." In order to ensure that attendees have a chance to hear from all of the award winners, several panel discussions featuring multiple prize winners will be held.

The response has been well beyond what the ACM initially expected. Vardi says that the group estimated they would get roughly 250 or 300 people to attend; there are now more than 1,000 attendees registered.

"We kept going to the hotel, 'We need more room! We need more room!'" he says.

Nor are the ACM's celebrations the only ones of their kind. The University of Manchester is planning its own conference for June 22-25, and a 100th Birthday party will be held in Cambridge on June 16 at Turing's alma mater, King's College, among many more.