15th & 16th June 2012

King's College, Cambridge

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/

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

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

Turing's 100th Birthday Party is being organized by Jack Copeland (jack.copeland@canterbury.ac.nz) and Mark Sprevak (mark.sprevak@ed.ac.uk).