[SIGCIS-Members] Turing's 100th Birthday Party at King's College, Cambridge

[Jack Copeland]

Turing's 100th Birthday Party at King's College, Cambridge

15th & 16th June 2012
King's College, Cambridge

<http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/>http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/

Turing's 100th Birthday Party, celebrating his life and work, will be 
held at King's College, Cambridge--Turing's beloved intellectual 
home. All welcome!

The speakers include a team of experts on Turing and leading 
scientists and science broadcasters such as Daniel Dennett, Simon 
Singh and Stephen Wolfram. Four members of Turing's immediate family 
and others who knew him personally will share their recollections of 
him.

Pioneers of computing who worked alongside him, building and 
programming the first computers, as well as investigating his 
mathematical theory of how living matter grows, will explain his 
ideas and achievements.

Codebreaker Jerry Roberts, one of Turing's last surviving wartime 
colleagues from Station X, will give the King's College Turing 
Centenary Lecture.

There will be lectures on Turing's contributions to: the Second World 
War, the development of our technological society, Artificial 
Intelligence, Artificial Life, the theory and practice of computing, 
and the understanding of the human mind.

Music: the premier performance of A Piano Suite for Turing.

For more information about the event, please go 
to: <http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/>http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/

Speakers

Sir John Dermot Turing
Turing's three nieces Inagh, Janet and  Shuna
Jon Agar
Margaret Boden, OBE
Martin Campbell-Kelly
Brian Carpenter
Jack Copeland
Daniel Dennett
Robert Doran
William Newman
Teresa Numerico
Brian Oakley
Brian Randell
Bernard Richards
Jerry Roberts
Simon Singh
Doron Swade
Stephen Wolfram
Michael Woodger

Registration

Please register early, places are limited. To register, 
visit: <http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/registration>http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/registration


Transport and accommodation

For information about how to arrive in King's College, and places to 
stay, 
visit: <http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/hotels>http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/hotels


Organizers

Turing's 100th Birthday Party is being organized by Jack Copeland 
(<mailto:j.copeland at phil.canterbury.ac.nz>jack.copeland at canterbury.ac.nz) 
and Mark Sprevak 
(<mailto:mark.sprevak at ed.ac.uk>mark.sprevak at ed.ac.uk).



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