Turing's 100th Birthday Party at King's College, Cambridge, 15-16 June 2012

[Jonathan Bowen]

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

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

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 Piano Suite for Turing.

For more information about the event, please go to:
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


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


Organizers

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