18-19 February 2012
Cambridge, U.K.
Turing in Context
King's College
Cambridge, England
18-19 February 2012
http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/TiC@Kings/
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
In the year 2012, the academic world will celebrate Alan Turing's
(1912-1954) birth centenary as the Alan Turing Year. Turing, who was on
the Time Magazine's list of the 100 most important people of the 20th
century, has revolutionized several fields by his seminal contributions to
the theory of computation (the Turing machine), the practical applications
of that theory by building the first digital computers, cryptography, and
artificial intelligence (the Turing test). Turing's special role for
science in the 20th century and his sad premature death made him an icon
whose recognition goes beyond his immediate scientific impact (consider,
e.g., the British Prime Minister's public apology to Turing in September
2009).
The event "Turing in Context" will highlight the many contributions of
Alan Turing for a general academic audience, in particular for
undergraduate and postgraduate students of all fields, and put these
contributions in a historical context. Our seven speakers will cover
topics such as British war intelligence, discrimination laws, pattern
formation in biological systems, artificial intelligence, as well as logic
and foundations of computing.
The event Turing in Context is hosted by Turing's former college in
Cambridge, King's College and is generously funded by the Isaac Newton
Institute and the AISB.
INVITED SPEAKERS.
Henk Barendregt (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Sue Black (University College London, U.K.)
David Gondek (Thomas J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A.)
Leslie Moran (Birkbeck College, U.K.)
Julian Richards (Buckingham University, U.K.)
Raul Rojas (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Angela Stevens (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany)
All members of Cambridge University, in particular all students at King's
College, are cordially invited to join us for this celebration. Attendance
is free, but since there is only limited seating capacity in Keynes Hall,
we ask for advance registration by sending an e-mail to Jenny Mackay
<programmes@newton.ac.uk> with the subject line "Registration for Turing
in Context, 18-19 Feb 2012". Acceptance is on a first-come first-served
basis.
The event will take place in Keynes Hall at King's College. There will be
an exhibition of Turing-related items from the archives of King's College
in the adjacent Chatwynd Room during the event.
RELATED EVENTS.
On Friday, 17 February 2012, Dr. David Gondek from IBM Research will give
a general audience presentation on the famous Watson project:
http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/TiC@Kings/watson.html
In October 2012, there will be a research-based follow-up event entitled
Turing in Context II with talks for specialists at the Royal Flemish
Academy of Belgium in Brussels:
http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/tic2/
Sponsors. TiC@Kings is organized as part of the Alan Turing Year 2012 and
sponsored by the King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in
Cambridge, the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and
the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of
Behaviour (AISB).
Organizers. Liesbeth De Mol (Gent), Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam & Hamburg),
Ken Moody (Cambridge), Giuseppe Primiero (Gent).