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Turing In Context, Cambridge
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Alan Turing Year Events Overview
- December 13-17, 2011:
Breaking
the Code
by
Hugh
Whitemore at at the newly refurbished
Old Fire
Station, on George Street, Oxford. Performed by the Oxford Theatre Guild, and directed by
Kevin Elliott, who says: "For a first time director, choice of play is critical.
I'd been told that a director should have fallen in love with the play if
they were going to do it justice. I'd certainly fallen for Breaking the Code."
Contact:
Oxford Theatre Guild.
Tickets available
from Tickets Oxford
JANUARY onwards
- January - December, 2012:
An exhibition
EMINENT & ENIGMATIC - 10 aspects of Alan Turing at
the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn. Its aim is to present Alan Turing's
outstanding achievements to visitors in the form of original exhibits and innovative and
artistic installations.
For details of the opening event GENIAL & GEHEIM, 19:00 on January 10, you can download
the flyer.
Contact:
Andreas Stolte
- January 4-5, 2012:
AMS-ASL
Special Session on The Life
and Legacy of Alan Turing at the
2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings, Hynes Convention Center,
Boston, MA.
The session, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, will include 14
hours of talks, intended to cover the full breadth of Turing's contributions, ranging
from mathematical logic and theoretical computer science to cryptography,
numerical analysis, philosophy of mind, and morphogenesis. Confirmed speakers
include: M. Minsky, S. Kauffman, Craig Bauer, J. Knight, J. Miller,
K. Eisentrager,
M. Davis,
G. Sacks,
W. Sieg and
T. Slaman.
Deadline for abstracts for proposed talks:
September 22, 2011. Electronic submission of abstracts is
through the AMS website.
Organisers:
Damir Dzhafarov,
Jeff Hirst and
Carl Mummert
- January 9 - July 6, 2012:
Semantics
and Syntax: A
Legacy of Alan Turing,
at the Isaac Newton
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.
Organisers: Arnold Beckmann,
Barry Cooper,
Benedikt Löwe,
Elvira Mayordomo,
Nigel Smart
- January 9:
Workshop on
The Mathematical Legacy of Alan Turing.
Public opening of the SAS programme (Spitalfields Day) -
all interested researchers and postgraduate students are invited to attend.
The London Mathematical Society supports the
Spitalfields Day by providing a limited number of modest travel grants for UK postgraduate students.
Organiser:
Benedikt Löwe
- January 12 onwards:
Turing Year in Iceland -
A series of events to celebrate the Alan Turing Centenary,
organised by the
Icelandic
Centre of Excellence in
Theoretical Computer Science (ICE-TCS)
at the University of Reykjavik, jointly with
the Icelandic Mathematical Society, CADIA and IIIM.
Report and
audio recording of first talk.
Contact:
Luca Aceto
- January 13-15, 2012:
MAMLS (Mid-Atlantic
Mathematical Logic Seminar) 2012, organised in association with the
Florida Atlantic University with
a Turing emphasis. Includes a number of stellar speakers in logic, and special guest speaker
David Leavitt, author of
The Man Who Knew Too
Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer.
Conference venue: Wyndham
Deerfield Beach Resort.
Contact:
Robert Lubarsky
- January 19, 2012:
Turing's legacy or What did Turing ever do for us? - BCS Central London
Branch meeting, at BCS, Southampton Street, London, arrive 18:00 for a 18:30 start.
Non-members welcome.
Speakers: Dr Sue Black, University College London;
Dr Peter J Bentley, Visiting Fellow at SIMTech, A*STAR;
Julian Wilson, Associate Director, Christie's;
Sarah Winmill, Director of IT for Support Services, University College London.
Contact: Sue Black
- January 20, 2012:
Alan Turing, eclettico e stravagante : un omaggio al
grande matematico nel centenario della nascita at
SUPSI, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera
italiana, Lugano-Canobbio, Campus Trevano, Switzerland.
Presented by Piergiorgio Odifreddi,
mathematician, logician and essay writer.
Professor Odifreddi will touch on the
most important events of Alan Turing's life as well as aspects of his personality,
while concentrating on the
scientific value and the cultural impact of Turing's innovative work.
Contact:
Grazia Köllner
- January 21-27, 2012:
38th
International Conference on Current Trends
in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2012),
in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic.
The 2012 SOFSEM will include a Special Session on
Turing Machines, as part of the
Foundations of Computer Science track.
Organising chair: Julius Stuller
- January 24, 2012 onwards:
Alan Turing Centenary 2012 in Calgary
.
The University of Calgary will offer a
series of talks on Turing's work
throughout the Winter and Fall 2012 terms. The
Telus Spark
Science Centre in Calgary will also host some
events related to Turing as part of their Adults Only Thursday
night series and the Calgary Science Café. Lectures online here.
Contact: Richard Zach
- January 31 - February 2, 2012:
Is Cryptographic
Theory Practically Relevant?,
in association with the Newton Institute
programme
Semantics and
Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing,
in Cambridge. Aims to bring together researchers who work in theoretical
aspects of cryptography (principally, provable security of protocols) with
people working on applied aspects of cryptography, particularly people
involved in standardization and in industrial deployment of cryptography.
Organisers:
Kenny Patterson,
Nigel Smart
FEBRUARY
- February 5, 2012:
Timos Teatri Eventi:
L'enigma di Turing e la mela di Biancaneve at
alle ore 18 al Teatro Palladium Università Roma Tre -
un evento interdisciplinare nel concetto e multimediale nella forma, la
sperimentazione di un nuovo modello di comunicazione scientifica.
Contact: Valeria
Patera
- February 5-11, 2012:
Workshop Computability
Theory at
Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. Participation by invitation only.
Contact: Klaus
Ambos-Spies
- February 6-8, 2012:
Days in Logic 2012 at the
University of Évora, Portugal.
Aiming to bring together mathematicians, computer scientists and other scientists from Portugal
and elsewhere with an interest in Logic. Specially directed to graduate students.
And in 2012 specially dedicated to Alan Turing's life and scientific achievements,
on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.
Contact: Sandra Alves
- February 7, 2012:
Oxford University LGBT lecture given by Andre Hodges,
on Alan Turing:
the One who became a Zero. 5:30pm, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History,
Parks Road,
Oxford, OX1 3PW.
Further info: Oxford University
Equality and Diversity Unit
- February 17, 2012, 5:30pm: Special Lecture
by Dr. John Prager from IBM Watson
Research
Center in Hawthorn NY (U.S.A.) on
IBM
Watson from Jeopardy! to Healthcare - Could a quiz-show winning computer advise your doctor?,
in the Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge,
England. Dr. Prager's lecture is part of the celebrations of the centenary
of
Alan Turing (1912-1954) and is sponsored by the programme Public
Understanding
of Artificial Intelligence (PUAI) of the AISB.
Contact: Benedikt
Loewe
- February 17-26, 2012:
Intuition
and
Ingenuity: An
Art Exhibition in Celebration of the Life of Alan Turing at
Lighthouse
as part of
Brighton
Science Festival. Preview Evening: Thursday 16th
February 7-9pm. "Intuition and Ingenuity"
will will tour throughout 2012, hosted by various venues, including Kinetica Art Fair,
Thursday 9th - Sunday 12th February 2012.
Contact: Anna
Dumitriu
- February 18-19, 2012:
Turing In Context at King's College, Cambridge.
A primarily student event, associated with the Newton Insitute programme,
putting Turing's work on the computer
in the context of work of many others.
iC@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).
Organisers: Liesbeth De Mol, Giuseppe Primiero, Ken Moody and Benedikt Löwe
- February 21-29, 2012:
IET
and BCS
Turing Lecture 2012, in locations:
- Tuesday 21 February IET London: Savoy Place, Lecture Theatre;
- Thursday 23 February Cardiff University, Pool Room, Law Building;
- Tuesday 28 February Manchester University, Lecture Theatre,
University Place; and
- Wednesday 29 February Edinburgh University, Lecture Theatre,
Appleton Tower
Prof.
Ray
Dolan FRS, who received the 2007 Max Planck Award for his work in
neuromodulation and behaviour, is the 2012 IET/BCS Turing Lecturer.
Prof. Dolan will draw some interesting links between Turing's original
ideas and the cutting edge work going on today in cognition and neuroimaging.
Hear how Turing's strongly Bayesian problem solving approaches have advanced
developments in understanding the workings of the brain and the human mind.
Contact: Jim Norton
- February 23, 2012:
Transdisciplinary Seminar
Artificial Intelligence - Terra Incognita Between Philosophy,
Computer Science, Biology ... (within the Alan Turing Year
framework). At
Donetsk National Technical
University, Ukraine. The aim of the seminar is the "mending of the
dialog of specialists in philosophy, computer science and cognitive science".
Information letter.
Contact: Ruslan Halikov
- February 25, 2012:
Premier of
Suite in five movements for Alan Turing by composer Fabrizio Sirotti.
Performed at Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Teatro A. Bonci, Cesena, Italy.
From an idea of the director of the Teatro Bonci, Franco Pollini, was
born in Cesena this original suite dedicated to Alan Turing, British
mathematician considered the "father" of computer science.
Theatre press office:
Emanuela Dallagiovanna
- February 27, 2012:
The
Legacy of a Genius: Alan Turing, the Father of Artificial Intelligence:
An International Workshop hosted by
UAEU.
Invited speakers will discuss how Turing's ground-breaking contributions
to different fields of the natural sciences will affect current and
future developments of mathematical logic, theories of computability,
robotics, morphogenesis, and cognitivist approaches to mental functions.
Download a
flyer.
Contact:
Ignacio Licata
- February 28, 2012, 5:30pm:
Launch of
Special
Issue of
Artlink Magazine
dedicated to Alan Turing,
and the opening of a linked exhibition
Art,
Pattern and Complexity.
At the Royal Institution of Australia (RIAus) and a part of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Fringe.
The exhibition runs from 29 February to 16 May 2012, 10am - 5pm, Monday to Friday, and
later during RiAus events.
Contact:
Paul Brown
- February 29 to June, 2012:
A Programme of Lectures
on Alan Turing:
The main organiser is Espai Ciència-Institut d'Estudis Catalans-Octubre
Centre de Cultura Contemporània, with the suport of the two
public universities in Valencia and the CSIC (Higher Research Council).
- 29 Feb. 7pm, Pedro Ruiz-Castell
- 14 March 7pm, Francesc Ferri
- 18 April 7pm, David Juher
- 16 May, David Jou
- Date tba, José Duato
Contact:
Juli Peretó
MARCH onwards
- March 1st, 2012:
Turing
Power of Mobility, at the Faculty of Mathematics, A.I.Cuza University (the
oldest and top ranking university in Romania). Speaker:
Gabriel Ciobanu, with talk related to the
recent Springer monograph on mobility by
B. Aman, G. Ciobanu: Mobility in Process Calculi and Natural Computing,
Springer, 2011. There is a second talk planned for
March at the Romanian Academy (Iasi Branch)
- March 5-9, 2012:
6th International Conference on
Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2012), A Coruña, Spain.
Includes tutorial sessions Around the Physical Church-Turing Thesis
presented by Gilles Dowek on March 6 and 7, dedicated to the Alan Turing Year.
Contact:
Miguel A. Alonso
- March 7, 2012:
Sixth conference of the Stichting Nationaal Informatica Congres (SNiC) on
Turing's
Legacy in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht (next to the central train station).
The general theme of the conference is the ideas of Alan Turing and their modern day applications.
Contact:
info [at] turingslegacy.nl
- March 7 - May 26, 2012:
Turing
and His Times - Three of the world's top computing museums collaborating by
hosting three events with live Twitter feeds and recorded webcasts to
mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing.
- March 7: George Dyson, author
of Turing's Cathedral, at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in
Mountain View, California in the USA
- April 26: Emeritus Professor Simon
Lavington, author of Turing and his Contemporaries, at the
National Museum of Computing located at Bletchley Park in the UK
- May 26: Horst Zuse, son of computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, at the
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Paderborn in Germany
Contact:
Stephen Fleming
- March 14-16, 2012:
Workshop on
Pattern
Formation: The inspiration
of Alan Turing at St. John's College, Oxford -
a Satellite Meeting of the Newton Institute
programme
Semantics and
Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing.
Contact:
Philip Maini
- March 17-18, 2012:
Special
Session on Computable Mathematics
(in honor of Alan Turing) as
part of the American Mathematical Society, 2012 Spring
Eastern Sectional Meeting,
George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Organisers:
Douglas Cenzer,
Valentina Harizanov and
Russell Miller
- March 18, 2012:
Turing Trail Relay 2012,
following riverside paths along both
banks of the Cam and Gt Ouse between Ely and Cambridge,
recorded as having been used by Alan Turing
for marathon training. This is a private Ely Runners club event,
joined by a limited number of Alan Turing Year/Newton Institute programme
participant
teams.
Start (9am) and Finish: Ely Cathedral.
Stage 1: Ely-Waterbeach (11.7m) mostly off-road
Stage 2: Waterbeach - Cambridge (Green Dragon Bridge) - Waterbeach
(8m) - mainly firm footpaths/roads
Stage 3: Waterbeach - Ely (12.1m) mixture off-road and tarmac
footpaths
Winning team to be presented with (and team name engraved on)
the perpetual Turing Trail Relay cup.
Contact:
Ely Runners. Enquiries to
Barry Cooper about joining/organising
an invited ATY team
- March 24 - November 18, 2012:
Manchester Museum exhibition:
Alan Turing and Life's Enigma at the University of
Manchester. Inspired by 1950s design, this exhibition documents Alan Turing's
investigation into one of the great mysteries of nature: how
complex shapes and patterns arise from simple balls of cells.
Contact:
Henry Mcghie (Head of Collections and Curator of Zoology)
- March 23, 2012:
Alan Mathison Turing - Eroe dell'Intelligenza Automatica,
at the Chamber of Deputies, Sala Delle Colonne, Rome. Speaker
Luciano Floridi, representing the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee
- March 24 - July 22, 2012:
Cryptograph: An Exhibition in Honor of Alan
Turing, at the
Spencer
Museum of Art,
University of Kansas. The exhibition draws from the Spencer's
permanent collections seeking works that resonate with the kinds of
questions that drove Turing's research: finding meaning in patterns,
and finding connections between mathematics and computing,
intelligence and natural form.
Exhibition catalogue to browse or download.
Contact:
Stephen Goddard
- March 26, 2012:
THE MANCHESTER LECTURE - Alan Turing: His Theory of Morphogenesis
Demonstrated in Radiolaria,
rare lecture by Turing's ex-student Professor
Bernard Richards for the Manchester Literary
and Philosophical Society, 7pm at the Royal Northern College of Music. All
welcome.
- March 26-30, 2012:
Workshop on
Logical Approaches to Barriers in Computing and
Complexity II, part of the Newton Institute
programme
Semantics and
Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing,
in Cambridge.
Contact:
Arnold Beckmann
- March 26-30, 2012:
Turing 2012: The Life and Works of Alan Turing -
a week-long event hosted by the
Department
of Philosophy at De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines
.
Features a two-day conference on Turing's influence in today's society,
focusing on his significant contributions in the areas of philosophy,
artificial intelligence, and computer science.
Contact:
Robert Boyles
- March 29, 2012:
Talk on Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges at the
STFC Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory. And on September 27, Barry Cooper
will talk on Turing's legacy.
Contact:
Bob Bingham
APRIL onwards
- April 2-5, 2012:
28th British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS 2012),
University of Manchester. Part of the Alan Turing Year, and
collocated with the Automated Reasoning Workshop (ARW).
The scope of the colloquium includes all aspects of theoretical
computer science, with both computer scientists and mathematicians welcome. Speakers
include: Rod Downey (Wellington), Mike Edmunds (Cardiff), Reiner Haehnle (Darmstadt)
and Nicole Schweikardt (Frankfurt).
Contact:
Ian Pratt-Hartmann
- April 4, 2012: A
Turing Centennial Conference, as part of the
Turing Year in Israel
programme of events. At Wohl Conference Center adjacent to Bar
Ilan.
Held under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences, with
support from Google, iCore. Speakers: Turing laureates Michael Rabin and Joseph Sifakis,
Google VP Alfred Spector, Corinna Cortes,
and Jacob Ziv, Micha Sharir, David Harel, and Shimon Ullman.
Tentative schedule.
And video About Alan
Turing (in Hebrew) from Prof. Amiram Yehudai at the conference.
Also Prof. Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University on
Geometry in Motion: From Turing Machines to Crawling Ants.
Contact:
Nachum Dershowitz
- April 5, 2012:
One-day conference on
Computability and Logic ,
at Bern Universität, Switzerland. Organised by the
Swiss Graduate Society of
Logic and Philosophy of Science (SGSLPS). Will feature
three plenary talks related to the work of Alan Turing and
Kurt Gödel.
Contact:
Marion Hämmerli or any other member of
the SGSLPS Board
- April 9-12, 2012:
41st Spring Conference of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians,
Borovetz, including special lecture by Radoslav Pavlov on
Alan Turing the Enigmatic Genius of the Information Age.
Contact:
Dimiter Skordev
- April 10-13, 2012:
Workshop on
"Formal and Computational Cryptographic Proofs",
part of the Newton Institute
programme
Semantics
and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing,
in Cambridge.
Contact:
Nigel Smart
-
April 15-19, 2012:
EuroCrypt 2012,
the top conference in Europe on Cryptography, flagship conference
of the IACR, to be held at the
University of Cambridge.
General Chair: Nigel Smart
- April 15-May 19, 2012:
Oslo
Turing Centenary Film Series,
University of Oslo.
Contact:
Cristian Prisacariu
-
April 16, 2012:
Conference tout public - Centaire de la naissance d'Alan Turing par Jean
Lassègue - 18:30, Campus St. Jean d'Angely, Amphi 4, Nice.
See: Espace Turing
for further ATY events
-
April 16, 2012:
Masterclass Turing - a
masterclass on Alan Turing for high school students, organised by the
Radboud University of Nijmegen with the Crypto Museum.
Contact: Frits Vaandrager
-
April 16-19, 2012:
2012 British Mathematical Colloquium,
University of Kent. Turing's biographer, Andrew Hodges (Wadham College, Oxford),
and Robert I.
Soare (Chicago) - speaking on
Mathematics and the Turing Renaissance - are confirmed
invited speakers.
There will be also a mini-workshop on Turing's Legacy
in Mathematics and Computer Science, organized
by Simon Thompson (Kent School of Computing).
Contact: Peter Fleischmann
-
April 16-19, 2012:
Workshop on Proof Theory and Modal Logic -
First International Wormshop
in Barcelona. The main idea behind the themes at the workshop are Recursive
Feferman-Turing Progressions of Formal Theories (Iterating
Consistency).
Contact: Joost J. Joosten
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April 16-20, 2012:
Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics (LATIN 2012),
in the campus of the Universidad Católica San Pablo, in
Arequipa, Peru.
The LATIN conference is pleased to join the celebrations in honour
of the Alan Turing Centenary of his birth.
At LATIN 2012, plenary talks by Martin Davis and Scott
Aaronson will form the core of
the celebration.
See poster.
Contact: David Fernández-Baca
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April 17, 2012:
The
2012 Edwards Lecture, at City University, London, 6pm. Professor David Stupples
will talk on Breaking Enigma and the Legacy of Alan Turing in Code Breaking.
Working actual U-boat Enigma Machines will be displayed at the event together
with a British wartime TypeX Machine which is rarely shown in public. Free to attend, but
must must reserve a place.
Bookings:
form
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April 18, 2012:
Machines, Algorithms and Computer Science in the Centenary
Celebrations of Alan Turing,
University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.
Hosted by the Dipartimento di Filosofia Letteratura
Storia e Scienze Sociali-Fless,
invited speakers include
Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Gabriele Lolli, Guglielmo
Tamburrini, Roberto Cordeschi, Luigi Borzacchini, Giovanni Pani, Anna Maria Fanelli,
Mauro Di Giandomenico and Carla Petrocelli.
Contact: Carla Petrocelli or
Chiara Porcelluzzi
- April 18, 2012:
Public lecture on
Alan
Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age by Jack Copeland.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 5:00 PM in Reiss 112, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC
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April 26, 2012:
Pioneers of Computer Science: From Turing to Harel, at
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).
The day before David Harel receives an honorary
doctorate, TU/e will host this symposium in his honour.
Besides a keynote talk from Harel,
there will be invited talks by Prof. Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden
University), Prof. Jan Friso Groote (TU/e), and Prof. Jan van Leeuwen
(Utrecht University). The title of Harel's keynote is "Standing on
the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person's Experience of Turing's
Impact".
Contact: Wil van der Aalst
- April 26 - May 17, 2012:
Gibbons
Memorial Lecture Series 2012, Auckland, New Zealand.
The 2012 lectures all concern Turing's
accomplishments and his legacy for Computer Science.
• April 26: Cristian Calude on Alan Turing and the Unsolvable Problem:
To Halt or Not to Halt
- That is the Question
• May 3: Jack Copeland
on Alan Turing and the Secret Cyphers:
Breaking the German Codes at Bletchley Park
• May 10: Brian Carpenter on
Alan Turing and the Computing Engine:
Turing's achievements in practical computing
•
May 17: Ian Watson on Alan Turing and the Artificial Brain:
The Development of Artificial Intelligence.
Details of
lectures. Contact:
Bob Doran
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April 30, 2012:
Alan M. Turing book launch at Bletchley Park, 2pm at
the Mansion House
Bletchley Park.
A "special event to celebrate the publication of the Centenary Edition
of Sara Turing's biography of her son Alan to mark one hundred years since the great man's birth.
Sir John Dermot Turing, nephew of Alan and son of John, who's unique afterword features
in the Centenary Edition for the very first time, will be reading extracts from the text."
All welcome, normal admission prices.
Contact: Kelsey Griffin
MAY
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May 2, 2012:
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW - Series 4, Volume 9: ALAN TURING!,
7:30pm at the Vittum Theater, 1012 N Noble Street, Chicago IL 60642. A
Trivial Pursuit of accidental knowledge - The Encyclopedia Show is known to
feature spoken word, monologues, storytelling, live music, comedy, lovable
characters, and yes, even actual experts. These encyclonauts will leave no
truth unturned and no fact unchallenged when they take on this
month's featured topic, ALAN TURING! Special guest: Hava Siegelmann.
Tickets: Chicago SLAM Works
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May 2, 2012:
Online lecture:
Turing: Pioneer of the
Information Age, by Jack Copeland at Stanford University in an EE380
session entitled The Alan Turing Centenary Lecture.
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May 4 - 27, 2012:
Station X, MK Gallery's Project Space exhibition during May,
offers a multi-sensory insight into the derelict buildings of Bletchley Park,
the home of the World War Two code-breakers, and arguably one of Britain's most
important historical sites. The exhibition is the result of a unique collaboration
between installation artist Maya Ramsay, sound artist Caroline Devine,
photographer Rachael Marshall and film maker Luke Williams.
Contact: Maya Ramsey
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May 7 - 13, 2012:
Commemoration of the Turing Centenary -
a week-long
event hosted by the University of Extremadura, at the
Escuela Politécnica de Cáceres. Further details
at the Blog Oficial de la Escuela Politécnica de Cáceres
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May 10-11, 2012:
Turing's Century (T100), in Edinburgh, organised by the
Edinburgh
University School of Informatics and
the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
There will be a public lecture reflecting on Turing's contribution to modern
life by
Jim Al Khalili on Thursday 10th May. And
on Friday 11th May there will
be a symposium with four themes and four keynote speakers corresponding to
areas where Turing made a major contribution:
• Algorithms -
David
Harel, Weizmann Institute
• AI -
Barbara
Grosz, Harvard University
• Morphogenesis -
Philip
Maini, Oxford University
• Computer Hardware/characterisations of the brain
-
Steve
Furber,
Manchester University
Also planned (provisionally) is a schools activity, with a competition
and a prize giving at the public lecture.
Contact:
Jane Hillston
- May 10-12, 2012:
Princeton Turing Centennial Celebration,
Princeton University. From the organisers:
As currently envisioned, the purpose
of this event is both to take the opportunity to celebrate our institution's
role in the evolution of computer science and to tell to the world the full
story of Turing's time at Princeton. Attendees will fully come to appreciate
that Turing was as important as Einstein for 20th century science, that his
impact on society today was far greater, and that Princeton has a proud
stake in his ownership, at least his PhD. See Jon Edwards' presentation
on
Computing at Princeton. An
excellent list of speakers.
In April and May in its lobby, the University's Firestone Library
will host an exhibition on early computing at Princeton. Turing's
Princeton dissertation and graduate file will be on display, as
well as material selected from The Shelby White and Leon Levy
Archives Center at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Contacts:
Robert Sedgewick and
Jon Edwards.
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May 12-13, 2012:
Workshop on Philosophy and Computation
at the University of Lund. An
event inspired by the Turing Centenary
celebration. One week before the workshop an inter-universitary advanced
course in formal philosophy, also entitled "Philosophy and
Computation" will be offered at LU with lecturer Paula Quinon. At least
one 4 hours session will be devoted to Turing and his achievements.
Call for papers deadline: February 17th, 2012.
Contact:
Paula Quinon
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May 15, 2012:
Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence 2012,
at Bletchley Park. From the organisers:
We will be webcasting the entire competition live, with the
web site
www.chatbots.org
as the principal hosting site, as well as
simulateous coverage on Facebook and Twitter.
More details from Hugh Loebner.
Finalists
Contact:
David Levy
- May 16-21, 2012:
Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC 2012),
at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. This will be part of the 2012 Turing Year in China
,
including The Turing Lectures featuring a number of Turing
Award winners and the publication of a special Turing
Centenary book. Speakers confirmed so far: S Barry Cooper (Leeds),
John Hopcroft (Cornell),
Richard Karp
(Berkeley),
Jon
Kleinberg (Cornell),
Butler
Lampson (Microsoft),
Wei
Li (BUAA, Beijing)
and
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
(Tsinghua, Beijing).
Contact:
Angsheng Li
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May 17, 2012:
Ignazio Licata introduces to the audience
of the
Palermo Queer Festival the Italian premiere of
The Turing Machine opera by Eeppi Ursin e
Visa-Pekka Mertanen.
As a physicist who works on computation he speaks of the intellectual
inheritance of Alan Turing. Paraphrasing Ignazio: "I
also conjugate the queer concept in a non trivial way with a special
attention to human singularity. In this sense, we attempt a parallelism to
Wittgenstein ("Wittgenstein" by Derek Jarman is also being shown). Two men who
explored the extreme limits of the logical description of the World, with
enduring relevance to our contemporary era." Here is his
contribution for the Festival booklet.
-
May 17, 2012:
Alan Turing - Computer Designer - Computer
Conservation Society lecture by Brian Carpenter
(former Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland), 14:30
at the Fellows Library of the Science Museum
Exhibition Road, London,SW7 2DD. Talk will include:
- the background to the ACE computer development
- the important aspects of the original ACE design
- Turing's first software (written in 1945)
- his formative ideas, and what happened to them
-
May 23, 2012:
2012 Alan Turing Year in Hong Kong Public Seminar -
Alan Turing and the Computing Revolution: Ten Big Ideas that Changed the World, 7:00pm - 9:00pm,
Classroom 1007, HKPC Building, 78 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Speaker: S Barry Cooper,
Chair of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee, and
advocate of a return to basic questions of the kind considered by Alan Turing,
and of interdisciplinary developments related to computability.
Contact: Cambridge Wong
-
May 24, 2012:
Alan Turing and his work in Manchester, presented by Dr James Sumner
of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester.
For the Friends of the Rylands Library. Aimed at the non-specialist, this talk will discuss Alan Turing's life
and work in Manchester in the short but eventful period between between
his arrival in 1948, and his death in 1954. At 5.45 for 6.15pm, in the meeting rooms at
The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester.
-
May 24, 2012:
Conferencia:
Legacy of Alan Turing,
at School of Engineering in Computer
Science, Universitat Politècnica de València.
Speaker Manuel de
León, member of the National Research Council and the Royal Academy of
Sciences. More information at the
Blog sobre el centenario del nacimiento de Alan Turing
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May 27-29, 2012:
Andrew Hodges at the The Canadian Society for History
and Philosophy of Mathematics Annual Meeting.
The CSHPM is holding a special session on the History of
Computing at its annual meeting May 27-29.
The keynote speaker (on May 28) will be Dr. Andrew Hodges of Wadham College, Oxford
University. This subject was chosen in honor of the Turing year.
Contact:
Maria Zack
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May 29, 2012:
A Celebration of Alan Turing:
Lectio Magistralis di Judea Pearl.
The Department of Computer Science of Rome's University "Sapienza" will
celebrate the Alan Turing Year by organizing a day devoted to the great
scientist,
in which the contribution of Alan Turing to computer science will be
presented.
The culmination will be an invited lecture by
2011 Turing Award winner
Prof
Judea
Pearl on machine learning
and
artificial intelligence, with some hints at statistics, philosophy and
cognitive
sciences. The event will be mostly addressed to students, but other
participants
will be present, ranging from political authorities to high school students.
Contact:
Daniele Gorla
-
May 30 - June 1, 2012:
1st Annual Conference on Complexity and
Human Experience - Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Conference dedicated to the work of Alan Turing (1912-1954) as
part of the 2012 Alan Turing Year. Will examine
"computing applications and complexity in the humanities and social sciences that
allow us to discover, create and make connections in ways that would not be
possible were it not for Turing's seminal work."
Contact:
Anthony Beavers
-
May 31, 2012:
The Creator:
Alan Turing and the Future of Thinking Machines at the
2012 World Science Festival, May 30 -
June 3 in New York. Includes the world premiere of
The Creator,
"a beautiful and surreal short-form film by award-winning
British filmmakers Al+Al, which follows sentient computers from
the future on a mystical odyssey to discover their creator:
legendary computer scientist Alan Turing".
JUNE onwards
- June 1-2:
The 5th
Over
the Air, at Bletchley Park:
"36 Hours of Mobile Development" ... "Bolstered by enthusiastic cheers of approval,
we'll once again be holding the event at Bletchley Park,
launching the Alan Turing Centenary year celebrations in style..."
Contact:
Margaret Gold
- June 3:
Simon
Singh on Alan Turing and Enigma at the Hay Literary Festival -
at 9am and at 8.30pm "the science writer celebrates the centenary of the genius
mathematician and code-breaker, who deciphered the German naval cables in
WWII, and demonstrates the encryption techniques on his own, original
Enigma Machine."
- June 5-27, 2012:
University of
Tennessee COSC 482 (Theory of Computation),
will relocate to the UK in 2012 - and
"will give students a unique opportunity to study and experience the
life and scientific contrubutions of Alan Turing".
Organiser: Prof.
Mike Berry
- June 6-9, 2012:
28th
Conference on the
Mathematical Foundations of
Programming Semantics, MFPS 2012,
University of Bath
Bath, UK.
Includes a special session on Computability on continuous data
devoted to the legacy of Alan Turing.
Deadline for submissions: March 5, 2012.
Contact:
Ulrich Berger (PC Chair)
-
June 11-13, 2012:
International Mathematica Symposium 2012 (IMS2012),
University College London. Will include an afternoon
Alan Turing Centenary Session on the Monday 11th June,
devoted to Turing's life and work, with Guest Speaker:
Dr Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: The Enigma.
Contact: Prof.
William T. Shaw (Conference Director)
-
June 12, 2012:
Lecture by Andrew Hodges on
Alan Turing: the Power of Mathematical Discovery:
Alan Turing's short and extraordinary life had great consequences for
modern computers, for the philosophy of mind, and for the outcome of
the Second World War. But all these things, and more, sprang from his
innovative work in mathematics.
This talk will illustrate the way that Alan Turing seized on a great
range of mathematical ideas and turned them into world-changing
discoveries.
5pm registration and coffee, 5:30pm lecture -
at
Crawford House Lecture Theatre, University of Manchester.
Map.
Register
HERE.
Contact:
Helen Harper (School of Mathematics, University of Manchester)
- June 12-15, 2012:
Workshop on
THE
INCOMPUTABLE, focusing on
the mathematical theory of incomputability, and
its relevance for the real world. Held as
part of the Newton Institute
programme
Semantics
and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing,
to be held at the
Kavli Royal Society International
Centre, Chicheley Hall.
THE INCOMPUTABLE, generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation,
promises to be a historic event, bringing the
mathematical theory of incomputability centre-stage once again. Attendance is limited to
110 participants - up to 60 housed on-site - so early booking is advised.
Contacts:
Barry Cooper,
Mariya Soskova.
- June 13, 2012:
The
Alan Turing Centenary Mini-Conference in Tartu, Estonia.
The Institute of Computer Science of University of Tartu celebrates the birth of
Alan Turing with a mini-conference. Conference is free and without
pre-registration. Share the word! Speakers include: Kristjan Korjus,
Peeter Laud, Dominique Unruh, Edith Elkind, Jaan Tallinn.
Video of meeting.
Contact:
Jaak Vilo
- June 13-16, 2012:
The
12th AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
is the yearly meeting of the members of the
Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence.
This year the symposium will take place in Rome from the 13th to the 16th of June and will
consist of a number of workshops, a doctoral consortium, a plenary session, a session
in memory of Marco Cadoli and various special events dedicated to celebrate the centenary of
Alan Turing's birth.
One Turing event is the workshop on
Popularize Artificial Intelligence (PAI-2012)
that aims at divulging the practical uses of
Artificial Intelligence by presenting videos, demos, proposals and
short papers accessible to a broad public.
Monetary prizes will be
awarded to different categories of submissions.
There will also be an
invited talk by
Roberto Cordeschi
on Turing and Artificial
Intelligence.
See the Programme.
Contacts: Fabrizio Riguzzi (Secretary AI*IA),
Matteo Baldoni (organiser workshop)
- June 13-30, 2012:
An
2012 Alan Turing Centenary Commemorative Exhibition.
The aim of this exhibition is to commemorate the Alan Turing Centenary on 23 June 2012,
and to promote more awareness of Alan Turing (Father of Computer Science)
in the general public. At 3/F Experimental Gallery, 10:00am to 8:00pm.
More information:
Alan Turing Year in Hong Kong Facebook page
- June 14, 2012:
Software Craftsmanship 2012
returns to its spiritual
home at Bletchley Park for a 3rd year for the Turing Centenary. The
definitive international conference for the practicing software
craftsman, SC2012 will bring together 250 passionate programmers to
share ideas, practice their techniques and learn from each other.
In aid of Bletchley Park, SC2012 will this year be celebrating the
life and work of computing pioneer and codebreaker, Alan Turing, with
a theme of "Computer Science for Software Craftsmen". Participants
will be encouraged to create and share coding exercises that explain
data structures and algorithms while reinforcing good coding
practices. The best exercises will be collected into a book aimed at
self-taught programmers and computer science students alike.
Organiser:
Jason Gorman
- June 14-16, 2012:
Popularize Artificial Intelligence (PAI-2012) - An
Associazione Italiana
per l'Intelligenza Artificiale
(AI*IA) Workshop and Prize in
celebration of the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth.
"The workshop will be organized as a poster session.
Each contribution will have some space for a poster and demos and systems
will be shown to the public. The best contributions will
additionally be presented during a plenary session of AI*IA 2012."
Organiser:
Matteo Baldoni
- June 14 - October 6, 2012:
Exhibition Turings Erfenis at CWI.
To honour the Alan Turing Year 2012, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam
organizes the exhibition 'Turings Erfenis'.
The exhibition shows an original Engima from World War II and a Turing machine made out of
LEGO, built by two CWI researchers. This machine shows the workings of a computer based on Turing's
ideas in 1936. A film about a robot helping young children cope with diabetes shows how
artificial intelligence has developed since Turing. The exhbition also shows Turing's
impact on biology.
Tours of the exhibiton are organized on Thursday and Friday afternoons.
Reservations can be made through tentoonstelling@cwi.nl.
- June 15-16, 2012:
The programme of the
ACM
A. M. Turing Centenary Celebration in San Francisco
centres on the ACM
A.M. Turing Award winners, 32 of whom will attend and participate in
the Celebration. The Technical Programme will
include moderated panels and invited talks from select speakers and
focus on Alan Turing's contributions, as well as the history, and
the future of computing.
By bringing together so many ACM A.M. Turing
Award winners to reflect on Alan Turing's contribution and share
their views on the past and future of computing, the ACM A.M. Turing
Centenary Celebration will engage researchers, academics, students,
and the public in a conversation about the importance and direction
of computer science and its discipline.
Registration,
which includes a Friday Reception for ACM A.M.
Turing Award and other ACM Award winners, ACM leaders, and all
registered attendees of the Centenary Celebration, is limited to 700 attendees with
at least 100 spots reserved for students.
Contact: ACM CEO
John White
- June 15-16, 2012:
ACE 2012 - Alan Turing's SURPRISE 100th Birthday Party at King's College Cambridge,
co-located with CiE
2012. EVERYONE WELCOME! Program details
here
and registration
here.
Speakers include Margaret Boden, Daniel Dennett, Captain Jerry Roberts, Simon Singh,
Sir John Dermot Turing, Stephen Wolfram.
Organisers:
Jack Copeland,
Mark
Sprevak
- June 16, 2012:
Reflections on Alan Turing's Life (1912-1954).
6pm at McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge.
- 18:00-18:30: Gay logician Robert Lubarsky (Florida Atlantic University)
offering Reflections on Turing's Suicide
- 18:30-19:30: Codebreaker -
53-minute international version of the film
broadcast on Channel 4 in
November of 2011, attracting 1.5 million viewers.
Contact:
Benedikt Löwe
- June 17, 2012:
All Turing Year supporters are invited to join members of
Ely Runners for a Training Run.
Watch for more details. But will be a pleasant Sunday morning
run
following riverside paths along banks of the Cam/Gt Ouse between
Ely and Cambridge, recorded as having been used by Alan
Turing for marathon training.
Contact:
Barry Cooper
- June 17, 2012:
The
8th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Model,
DCM 2012 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
a satellite meeting of CiE
2012.
The aim of this series of workshops is to bring together researchers who are currently
developing new computational models or new features for traditional
computational models, in order to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting
new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area.
Contacts:
Benedikt Löwe,
Glynn
Winskel (Programme Committee Co-chairs)
- June 18-23, 2012:
TURING
CENTENARY CONFERENCE: CiE 2012 - How the World Computes,
University of Cambridge.
CiE 2012 will celebrate Turing's unique impact on mathematics,
computing, computer science, informatics,
morphogenesis, philosophy and the wider scientific world.
Its central
theme is the computability-theoretic concerns underlying the broad
spectrum of Turing's interests, and the contemporary
research areas founded upon and animated by them.
The conference will conclude on
the June 23 anniversary of Turing's birth with a
King's College celebration,
with King's alumnus Professor
Leslie
Valiant, the 2010 Turing Award recipient, speaking at the morning session - and the afternoon
given over to social occasion for King's College members and CiE 2012 participants.
This Turing Centenary Conference is sponsored by Microsoft Research, the
Association for Symbolic Logic, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science,
the European Association for Computer Science Logic, IFCoLog
and the University of Cambridge.
DEADLINE for paper submissions: January 20, 2012 - for details see the
First
Call for Papers.
Contacts: Anuj Dawar and
Barry Cooper
- June 21, 2012 to June, 2013:
Codebreaker - Alan Turing's Life and Legacy: An ambitious
exhibit initiated by the
Computer
Conservation
Society
and taken forward by the
Science
Museum. Will feature:
- The Pilot ACE computer - one of the star items embodying Turing's
ideas for a universal programmable computer
- A special simulator of the Pilot ACE, made in 1950 to present the computer's
capabilities to a wider public
- Other key exhibits including a piece of Comet jet fuselage wreckage analysed with
the aid of Pilot ACE in 1954 following a series of crashes
- German military Enigma machines
- Rare remaining parts of the huge, revolutionary electromechanical
'Bombe' machines devised by Turing during World War II to crack codes
At the Science Museum, South Kensington, lasting
12 months and spanning the 23rd June 2012 Turing birthdate
anniversary. Supported by Google. See the Science Museum
initial announcement.
Contact: Tilly Blyth or
Simon Lavington
- June 22, 2012:
A Seattle Concert and Installation in Honor of Alan Turing
, as part of the
Wayward
Music Series at Seattle's wonderful venue for experimental
music, the
Chapel
Performance Space.
Will include
a number of musical pieces, poetry that paraphrases a proof by
Turing in the style of Dr. Seuss, the work of several visual artists,
and small vignettes from Turing's life.
Organiser: David Stutz
- June 22-23, 2012:
A Turing Centenary Bangalore - The State of Computing: Alan Turing Birth
Centenary Conference
, at the Department of Computer Science, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.
The two-day conference will celebrate Turing's
work and contributions to computing and the subsequent IT revolution while also revisiting
its limitations pointed out by Turing and Gödel.
In particular, the questions of whether, how and when computing machines and software programs
will move to higher levels of intelligence and usability will be debated.
Includes India premiere of the new edition of the film Codebreaker.
- June 22-25, 2012:
TURING 100 - TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE
at Manchester University and
the Manchester City Hall. (See
report from John
Templeton Foundation.)
With Honorary Chairs Rodney Brooks and
Sir Roger Penrose,
and featuring lectures by sixteen major figures including
Vint Cerf, Ed Clarke, Tony Hoare, Yuri Matiyasevich, Michael Rabin and Garry Kasparov.
Organised in cooperation with the
University of Manchester and
Manchester City Council.
Supported by the Kurt Gödel Society,
and funded by the
John Templeton Foundation.
Will include presentation of the awards to the
winners of the
JTF
Turing Centenary Research Fellowship and Scholar Competition.
DEADLINE for submitting an application for a grant (£45,000 for Turing Scholars,
£75,000 for Turing Fellows) is December 16, 2011.
Click
HERE
for instructions on how to apply.
Contacts:
Andrei Voronkov (Chair, Organising Committee),
Matthias Baaz (Vice President, Kurt Gödel Society), and
S Barry Cooper (Chair, Turing Fellowship Competition)
- June 22 - December, 2012: As part of the
Brazilian Alan Turing Year:
A Special
Lecture Series celebrating the Alan Turing Year, at the
Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Distinguished speakers from Brazil, the UK and the USA
will contribute a cycle of
invited talks for both academic and
general audiences, focusing on different aspects of Computer Science and legacies
from Alan Turing's work. The first lecture on June 22 will be given
by Prof. Luis Lamb,
on Alan Mathison Turing and the Turing Award Winners: A short
journey through the history of Computer Science.
Other activities include:
A Code Breaker Contest
(organiser: Prof. Fernando Weber);
Legacy for
Computing and Humanity - Exhibition at the UFRGS's Museum; and
a Videos
Contest to enhance Science and Technology amongst students
under 18 years old.
Contacts:
Marcelo Walter (Lecture Series) and
Dante Barone (General Organiser)
- June 23, 2012:
Manchester Walks - Alan Turing Centenary Tribute Walk, starts
Manchester Museum reception, off Oxford Road, 11am. "Alan Turing was cremated at Woking; his life-size
statue occupies pride of place in Sackville Park where we end the tour." Cost: 5 pounds.
Contact: Ed Glinert
(author The Manchester Compendium -
A Street-by-Street History of England's Greatest Industrial City)
- June 23, 2012:
Speciale 100 anni di Alan Turing, 18:30 at the Science Museum
in Milan, a demonstration of the workings of an Enigma machine. See
Turing, la mela e il serpente via
l'Unità.
- June 23, 2012:
One-Day Seminar on: Computability, Complexity and
the Digital Era to coincide with the Centenary of Alan Turing, in Kolkata,
India. Part of a year long roster of events to
honour Alan Turing, father of Computer Science, on the centenary of his birth, June 23, 2012.
See also the Computer Society of India
Web
Page.
Contact:
Dr. T. V. Gopal
- June 23, 2012:
UK Premiere of experimental film
The Creator by internationally-reknown artists Al & Al, 6:30pm at
The Cornerhouse in Manchester.
"A far cry from the dry, sanitised interpretations of a man once shunned but
now revered as a master of modern mathematics, Al & Al have chosen to blend fact with
fantastical speculation in this, the re-telling of that fateful day when Turing chose to
end his own life. Touching upon the myth of Snow White, Turing's doomed encounter with his
lover Arnold Murray (only yards from the current Cornerhouse site), his subsequent
experimentation with Jungian psychoanalysis and the nature of human physicality versus
artificial conciousness, this is both a dream of loss and sweat-beaded nightmare."
Contact:
Elisa Ruff
(Media & Communications Officer at Cornerhouse)
- June 23, 2012:
Alan Turing Birthday Event in Manhattan:
2012 marks 100 years since the birth of Alan Turing. Saturday June 23rd is
the actual centenary. That weekend also happens to be
Pride Week in NYC.
Given this line up of the Celestial Signs,
The New York Consciousness Collective invites you to the Lower East side of
Manhattan to let your freak flag fly in honor of Alan Turing.
The event is free and features music from cognitive scientists and philosophers!
- June 23, 2012:
TURING100 at BLETCHLEY PARK
is a one-day family event open to members of the public visiting on the historic day.
Much of the day will revolve around Alan Turing's Imitation Game, hosted at Bletchley Park, the
place where Alan Turing broke codes during the second world war,
on the centenary of his birth.
There will be a
Special Turing Centenary Competition for members of the public
attempting to determine machine from human, and male from female. Also -
Turing's birthplace, The Colonnade Hotel London, is to award the 'Winning
Machine' trophy. Best Adult Judge, trophy is awarded by University of Reading,
with
Best Child Judge to receiving a Raspberry Pi computer.
[DETAILS]
Contacts:
Huma Shah and
Kevin Warwick,
Email:
turing100atBletchleyPark[at]gmail[dot]com
- June 23, 2012: A
Turing Centenary Symposium, as part of the fifth
North American Summer School of Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI 2012)
, hosted at the University of Texas at Austin, June 18-22, 2012.
The Symposium is
hosting a variety of speakers to talk about the man Turing was
and present contributions to the fields in which Turing was influential.
Contact:
Valeria de Paiva
- June 23, 2012:
Workshop Centenario Turing (Enigmaduino cracking contest), 9 - 12 at
Dipartimento di Informatica, via Comelico 39, Milano.
An Enigma online cracking simulation implemented with the
Arduino platform.
"For the centenary of
Turing (June 23, 2012) we decided to build something related to the Bletchley Park
effort during WWII. We created a simplified Enigma machine using Arduino, we
connected it to the Internet and now it's available online to be "cracked".
More details. Also
Milan Science Museum will
demonstrate a real Enigma machine, 6.30pm the same day. Contact:
Andrea Trentini
- June 23, 2012: A
Dorkboat up the Thames linked to Turing's Birthday. From
Anna
Dumitriu: "There'll be a Dorkboat up the Thames and we are linking it in to
Turing's Birthday when it docks at Watermans Gallery, book quick
because the tickets sell out fast!"
- June 23-24, 2012:
TURING'S WORLDS, at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford - Turing centenary related
BSHM/OUDCE Annual Residential
Meeting, organised by the British Society for
the History of Mathematics and the Oxford University
Dept of Continuing Education. The weekend attempts a rounded view of a polymath, one of the great
mathematicians of the twentieth century, his life and his times. See the webpage for
programme and list of distinguished
speakers.
Contact:
Martin Campbell-Kelly
- June 23-26, 2012:
Alan Turing Centenary and
Theory of Computation Summer School 2012 (CCA 2012), in
Daejeon, South Korea. Hosted by the
National Institute for Mathematical
Sciences (NIMS), South Korea.
Poster.
Contact: Byunghan Kim
- June 24, 2012:
Alan
Turing Commemorative Bike Ride,
from Sherborne School to Southampton. Commemorates Alan Turing's
first journey, by bicycle in 1925, to Sherborne School from Southampton
as a 13 year old boy.
Report
of the event from the Sherborne School newsletter.
- June 24-27, 2012:
Ninth International Conference
on Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2012), in Cambridge, UK,
co-located with CiE
2012.
Contacts:
Klaus Weihrauch (Programme Cttee Chair, for submissions),
Arno Pauly (Organising Cttee Chair, for local
information).
- June 25-28, 2012:
Twenty-Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on
Logic
in Computer Science (LICS 2012) at the
University of Dubrovnik
in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Will include
a plenary session June 25-27
commemorating
Alan Turing's unique contribution to logic and
computer science, on the occasion of his centenary,
with talks by Robert L. Constable, E. Allen Emerson (co-winner of 2008 A. M.
Turing Award), Joan Feigenbaum, and Leonid Levin.
Deadlines:
Titles and Short Abstracts - January 6, 2012;
Extended Abstracts - January 13, 2012.
Contact:
Nachum Dershowitz (Programme Chair)
- June 26, 2012:
The
Enigma of Alan Turing - Father of Computing - Open talk by
Professor Phil Dyke, organised by
Plymouth Humanists.
7:30 at
Royal Plymouth Corinthian Yacht Club, Madeira Road, Plymouth.
- June 26-28, 2012:
Alan Turing: From
Computers to Life, a 3-day conference in
the
National University of Mexico (UNAM).
Speakers include: Greg and Virginia Chaitin, Carlos Gershenson, Pedro Miramontes, Guillermo
Morales, Faustino Sánchez, Ricardo Mansilla and Hector Zenil -
PROGRAMME.
The conference will be followed by a book based on the talks of the speakers in commemoration
and celebration of Alan Turing's 100th anniversary.
Contact:
Hector Zenil
- June 26-29, 2012:
IEEE Conference on Computational
Complexity 2012 (CCC'12), in Porto, Portugal -
organised in association with the
2012 Alan Turing Year.
Contacts:
Luís Antunes (Local Chair),
Peter Bro Miltersen (Steering Cttee Chair).
- June 26 - July 1, 2012:
IJCAR 2012 -
The 6th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning,
in Manchester.
IJCAR forms a key part of the Alan Turing Year 2012, and
follows immediately after the Turing
Centenary conference Celebrating Turing -
Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics. Satellite events June 30-July 1.
Contacts:
Konstantin Korovin,
Andrei Voronkov.
- June 28, 2012:
Creativity in tough times:
Turing and Manchester University after the Second World War
,
6-8pm at The Manchester Museum. With Professor John Pickstone from
The University of Manchester.
The impact of Alan Turing is indisputable, so too the tragedy of his suicide. In many ways,
his ideas on computing changed the world, but how did he interact with
Manchester University - his home for his last six years? This lecture will explore
his work here and the mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biologists and medical
men with whom he worked. Free - Book on 0161 275 2648
- June 28-29, 2012:
Simposio
Turing 2012,
a two day event held at
the
Department of
Computer Science, CINVESTAV, México. There will be
eight lectures by three invited speakers (including Gregory Chaitin)
and five members of the Department of Computer Science about Turing's
ideas and legacy including: morphogenesis, mathematics of biology,
computational complexity, mathematics, cryptography, chess and
computer science.
- June 29, 2012:
Special Event to
Celebrate Turing's Centenary, Universidad Mayor de San Andres,
La Paz, Bolivia. Organised by the
PGI-UMSA in collaboration with the Universidad Católica Boliviana
and the Bolivian Agency for the Development of the Information
Society (ADSIB).
- June 29 - July 11, 2012:
Summer
School in
Cognitive Sciences 2012 - Evolution and Function of
Consciousness,
in Montreal, Canada. Commemorating the
Centenary of the birth of Alan Turing (June 23 2012), with the theme:
The
causal role of consciousness in brain and behavioral evolution and
function. See John Searle video from conference, speaking on
Consciousness and Causality. And
other videos from conference here too.
Contact:
Stevan Harnad
- June 30, 2012:
The Turing Education Day (TED) at Bletchley Park, incorporating the
Alan Turing Memorial Lecture 2012. A
team of
first-rate expositors will
explain the key aspects of Turing's many-sided work to a general
audience. Topics covered will include codebreaking; the birth and
early development of the computer and computer programming;
artificial intelligence; artificial life; and the foundations and
philosophy of mathematics.
Contact:
Jack Copeland
JULY onwards
- July 2, 2012:
Concert
Can Machines Be Creative?, live from the University of Málaga, 20:30 (Madrid time),
19:30 (London). Pieces include: Colossus; Ugadi; Alpharc; Kinoth.
See the Guardian report on the event:
Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga.
This event will be the first one of a collection of initiatives that will be organized
during this year to commemorate the Centenary of the Life and Work of
Alan Turing. The Opening Event will consist of the live transmission of a
classical contemporary music Concert, where the pieces have been composed
by the Iamus system.
Contact: Ernesto Pimentel and
Francisco J. Vico
- July 2-4, 2012:
How Turing's Machine Changed the World, a Turing Centenary Conference to be held
in Lyon.
- Day 1 will include 6 public lectures (in French) for a broad audience, and end with the presentation of an honorary
degree to Leslie Valiant.
- Day 2 will comprise an international conference on "Turing's
Heritage: Logic, Computation & Complexity" (in English) with 6 invited talks.
- And Day 3 will
be a workshop on "complexity and finite models".
The conference is organized by the computer science department and computer science research laboratory at
ENS de Lyon,
and the Excellence initiative
laboratory in Mathematics and Computer Science (MILYON).
Contact:
Eric Fleury
- July 2-6, 2012:
7th
Conference on Computability, Complexity and Randomness (CCR 2012),
and
Workshop
on Randomness,
part of the Newton Institute
programme
Semantics
and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing,
in Cambridge. Submission deadline for abstracts: February 25, 2012.
Contacts:
Elvira Mayordomo and
Wolfgang
Merkle
- July 2-6, 2012:
JOINT 2012
International Association
for Computing and
Philosophy World Congress (IACAP 2012)
and Society for
the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour
Annual Convention
(AISB 2012), University
of Birmingham. Contacts:
John Barnden,
Anthony Beavers,
Manfred Kerber
- July 3-5, 2012:
ITiCSE 2012 -
17th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
,
at the Technion in Haifa, Israel.
ITiCSE 2012 is among the official Centenary events of the Alan Turing Year.
All three Keynotes of ITiCSE 2012 will be in conjunction with the Turing Centenary:
- Michael Rabin, a Turing Award winner, will talk on Never too early to begin: Computer Sacience for school students.
- Lenore Blum will talk on Alan Turing and the other theory of Computing.
- David Harel will talk on Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person's
Experience of Turing's
Impact.
Download poster. Contacts:
Tami Lapidot, Judith Gal-Ezer (Conference Chairs)
- July 3-7, 2012: The
7th International
Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR 2012),
at the University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN). This Alan Turing Year event
will include a special Turing lecture given by
Yuri
Matiyasevich. Deadline for submissions:
December 11, 2011. Contact:
Juhani Karhumäki
- July 5, 2012:
Mechanising the Mind: Turing and the Computable -
a centenary lecture - Philip Welch
delivers The Alan Turing Centenary Lecture at the
6th European Congress of Mathematics, 2-7 July, 2012,
in Kraków, Poland
- July 9-13, 2012:
39th International
Colloquium on Automata, Languages and
Programming (ICALP 2012),
the main conference and annual meeting of the
European Association for
Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS),
University of Warwick. Turing centenary events include a special
lecture by David Harel, and an excursion to Bletchley Park.
Deadline for submissions:
February 21, 2012. Contact:
Artur Czumaj (Conference Chair)
- July 12-18,
2012:
Logic Colloquium 2012 and annual meeting of the
British Logic Colloquium, at the
University of Manchester. The Logic Colloquium is the
European meeting of the
Association for Symbolic Logic.
The programme will include a number of talks/special sessions
related to the Turing legacy in logic and applications, and the Turing Lecture
given by Professor
Angus MacIntyre. 2012 is also the Goodstein centenary,
and Harvey Friedman will
give the Goodstein Lecture as part of the BLC part of the
programme.
Contact:
Paola D'Aquino (Chair, Programme Committee)
or
Alex Wilkie (Chair, Organising Committee)
- July 13, 2012:
Animation12 Festival and Inspirational
Computer Science Day at Manchester,
University of Manchester.
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing
Computing At School (CAS) is running a
Codebreaker
themed competition in association with Animation12.
Contact:
Toby Howard
- July 14-20,
2012:
Touring Turing, a 2012
Oxford University Summer School for Adults
(OUSSA 2012)
summer school, celebrating the life and
work of Alan Mathison Turing. At Rewley House, Oxford.
Contact:
Robin Whitty
- July 16-20,
2012:
6th International School on Rewriting,
Valencia, Spain. The School will contribute to the Alan Turing year by including
some specific courses which connect the theory of term rewriting with
some central notions
like computability, termination, lambda calculus, etc. where Turing made
important
contributions. Lecturers include Andrei Voronkov, and
courses on Tree Automata, Turing Machines and Term Rewriting (by Sophie Tison,
Lille),
Lambda Calculus: extensions and applications (by Pierre Lescanne, ENS
Lyon),
Termination of Rewriting: Foundations and Automation (by Albert Rubio,
T.U. of Catalonia).
Contact:
Salvador Lucas
- July 17-20,
2012:
17th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA),
Porto, Portugal. "This year edition of the conference is dedicated to
Alan Turing on the occasion of the Centenary Celebration of his life and work."
Contact:
Nelma Moreira,
Rogério Reis
- July 22-26,
2012: The
Inaugural AAAI Turing Lecture, to be given by
Christos Papadimitriou, C. Lester Hogan Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, during the
Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12),
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Sheraton Centre Toronto.
Contact:
Toby Walsh (Turing Track organiser)
AUGUST onwards
- August 6-10,
2012:
Logic and Computability at CLAM 2012,
at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. CLAM 2012 is
the 4th Latin American Congress of Mathematicians.
"This session of CLAM 2012 has been included as part of the
celebrations of the Alan Turing Year 2012,
the centenary of the life and Work of Alan Turing."
Contact:
Verónica Becher
- August 6-17, 2012:
24th European Summer
School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI 2012),
Opole, Poland.
As part of the activities of the Alan Turing Year, the ESF network
INFTY:
New Frontiers of Infinity is sponsoring a foundational
course Models
of Computation, taught by Robert Lubarsky (Florida Atlantic University).
Contact:
Benedikt Löwe
- August 10-26, and August 30-September 09, 2012:
PINK MILK at the
New York International Fringe Festival and
Chicago
Fringe Festival, by Justin Connolly.
"A drama infused with dance, PINK MILK is inspired by the true story of Alan Turing -
the man basically responsible for ending WWII in Britain but later criminally charged
for being gay who chose chemical castration over prison and whose death is shrouded in
mystery. Movement, nosebleeds, electronica and a talking daisy. PINK MILK, inspired by
the father of Computer Science, explodes themes of creation, destruction and eternal love."
Contact:
Erin Murray (Executive Producer)
- August 18, 2012:
Big Night of Science at the
Ultimo Science Festival in Sydney, Australia, with guest speaker
Jack Copeland on Alan Turing and his legacy.
Objects from the Powerhouse museum's collection will be on special display
at the event, with curators on hand to tell the fascinating stories behind objects
such as the enigma machine, code-breaking equipment, objects that stemmed from Alan Turing's
work and more.
- August 18-19, 2012:
The Singularity Summit Australia (Science and the
Audacity of Imagination), Melbourne. "Of special significance this year is the
centenary of Alan Turing's birth.
To celebrate, the summit will have focus on Alan Turing and his unique impact on
the history of computing, computer science, artificial intelligence,
developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability."
REGISTER
- August 23-25, 2012:
The Turing Festival 2012 - Edinburgh International Technology Festival,
Edinburgh, 23-25 August 2012. "Edinburgh in August is where the cream of the world's
artistic and creative communities come together in the largest cultural festival on the planet.
The Turing Festival brings the digital industries and the web into this gathering in a
celebration of digital culture and creativity. Named in honour of Alan Turing, father of
modern computing, the festival moves beyond traditional tech conferences to explore the
ways in which technology is affecting all aspects of culture and society." With special
appeal to IT industry participants - with keynote speaker Steve
Wozniak, Apple Founder.
Contact:
Jamie Coleman
- August 25, 2012:
Manchester Pride Parade, part of
Manchester Pride 2012. From the organisers:
"This years Manchester Pride theme is Queer'd Science,
in honour of 'Father of computer science, mathematician, logician, wartime
codebreaker and victim of prejudice,' Alan Turing. The gay computer pioneer was prosecuted
for gross indecency for having relations with another man in 1952,
when homosexual acts were illegal in the UK."
Contact:
The organisers
- August 26 to September 16, 2012:
Final of the Turing-tape Games Competition.
"The last practice round began on 15th July. There are now 20 games on the
web on which to hone your algorithm ready for the final (when the slate will
be wiped clean). Anyone can join in and be listed among the topscorers.
There are (cash and other) prizes for students registered at a UK
educational institution in 3 categories: pre-university, undergraduate and
postgraduate. The University of Laval in Canada is also offering cash
prizes to its students. If anyone wants to offer prizes in their own
country, write to:
Roland
Backhouse.
- August 27-31, 2012:
20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI 2012,
Montpelier, France. Includes a
Turing and Anniversary Session,
providing a historical perspective on the field of artificial intelligence
in Europe and beyond. Speakers include:
Wolfgang Bibel, Alan Bundy, Hector Geffner, Malik Ghallab, Stephen Muggleton
(slides),
Erik Sandewall and Aaron Sloman. Sponsored by
IOS Press.
- August 28-31, 2012:
The 13th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC13) in
Budapest, Hungary. Included will be a
Special Session: Turing Computability and Membrane Computing as an Unconventional
Computing Paradigm, with invited speakers and a selection of submitted papers dealing with
relationships between Turing's work and membrane computing.
Contacts:
Marian Gheorghe (CMC Steering Cttee Chair),
Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (CMC13 Co-chair)
- August 29-31, 2012:
Physics and Computation 2012 at the University of Swansea, UK.
The workshop is an interdisciplinary meeting on the frontiers of Mathematics,
Physics, Computer Science, Engineering and Biology. The programme will
consist of invited talks and contributed talks, and a keynote public
lecture by Tony Hey (Microsoft Research). The workshop is the fifth in a series, the previous ones being held
in Vienna (2008), the Azores, Egypt and
Finland (2011).
Deadline for submissions of 2-page abstracts of contributed talks: 1 August, 2012.
Contact:
Jens Blanck
SEPTEMBER onwards
- September 3-7, 2012:
Unconventional Computation and Natural Computing (UCNC 2012) (previously
Unconventional Computation),
in Orléans. There will be a special Alan Turing Year talk given by
Gilles
Dowek relating to Turing's work on morphogenesis.
Contacts:
Jérôme Durand-Lose (PC Co-chair),
Florent Becker (Local OC Chair)
- September 3-6, 2012:
Computer Science Logic (CSL 2012) -
The 21st EACSL Annual Conferences on Computer Science Logic
will be held in the main building of the IUT
Fontainebleau of
UPEC Université.
Contact:
Arnaud Durand
- September 3-6, 2012:
19th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2012),
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Contact:
Ruy de Queiroz
- September 4, 2012:
Alan Turing: A Centenary Celebration, 6:00-8:30pm
at the Berkeley City College Auditorium
2050 Center Street in downtown Berkeley, California. With speaker
Andrew Hodges, followed by Richard Karp moderating a
panel discussion on the influence of Turing's work in current research
in logic, computer science, complexity - with panelists including
Martin Davis, Andrew Hodges, Don Knuth, Peter Norvig,
Dana Scott and Luca Trevisan. Free, but limited seating.
Poster
- September 4-7, 2012:
Turing's Economics - A
Session Celebrating the Alan Turing Birth Centennial, held as part of the
4th
World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2012),
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Contact:
Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai
- September 4-7, 2012:
23rd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2012),
Newcastle upon Tyne. Deadlines: April 4 (for abstracts), April 11 (for paper
submission). Satellite workshops: 3 & 8 September 2012.
Contact:
Irek Ulidowski
- September 5-7, 2012:
[CANCELLED
Challenging Turing 2012,
Stanford University. An academic event in the spirit of
Turing's inquiry, aiming to clarify contemporary interpretations of
Turing's work, and to make further progress.
From the organisers: "Continuing his inquiry and encouraging further progress is a unique way
for Stanford University and the Silicon Valley community
to recognize and honor Alan Turing's contributions ...
We will give preference to papers that reflect the standards of Alan
Turing's inquiry and move the inquiry forward." Submission deadline:
May 1st, 2012.
Contact:
Steven Ericsson-Zenith at stevene @ stanford.edu ]
- September 6, 2012:
Significance session: Alan Turing and Enigma, 1.30pm - 2.50pm
at the Royal Statistical Society 2012 International Conference.
Presentation delivered by
James Grime of Cambridge.
- September 6, 2012:
Special Session on Alan Turing at INForum 2012,
the Portuguese national conference on informatics and computer science. The Session,
starting 13:00 at the Universidade Nova Lisboa,
includes speakers:
- José Manuael Valenca (Universidade do Minho) on
Alan Turing and Bletchley Park, and
- Luís Caires (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) on
Turing: From Virtual to Real Machines and Back.
Contacts: José Pereira
and
Antónia Lopes
(Programme Chairs)
- September 7, 2012:
Gloucester History Festival talk on The Centenary of Alan Turing, Enigma
& the Dawn of the Computer Age, given by GCHQ historian Tony Comer, who
"will reveal how the German Engima codes were cracked and show the legacy
of the great intelligence gatherers - the beginning of today's
computer age." At Blackfriars Priory, 19:30. An Enigma machine will be on display
for guests to look at after the talk.
- September 7 - October 27, 2012:
Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore, performed by The English Theatre Frankfurt.
"An exceptional biographical drama about eccentric genius Alan Turing (1912-1954),
a man who broke too many codes."
Directed by Michael Howcroft, designed by Bob Bailey.
Has had great reviews.
For tickets, see more
information.
- September 8, 2012:
Alan Turing in Hastings: An evening talk (19:30-21:30) about
Alan Turing, the computer and coding genius, who spent his childhood
in St Leonards on Sea. Speaker: Dean Morrison,
focussing on Turing's childhood
years growing up in the town.
At White Rock Hotel, Hastings, East Sussex, TN341JU.
See photos of
Baston Lodge in St Leonards
where Alan and John Turing lived as children, and the
new blue plaque to
be unveiled at 2.30pm on Saturday 23rd June 2012.
Organised by Catherine Tajima Powell & Dean Morrison.
- September 9, 2012:
Teams from universities and institutions with a link to the
Alan Turing Year are encouraged to enter the
2012 Grunty Fen Half
Marathon, organised by the
Ely Runners, who
will present two team trophies engraved respectively:
Grunty Fen Half Marathon
Alan Turing Centenary 2012
1st Male Team/1st Female Team
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Contact:
Ely Runners, and watch the
race webpage
for entry details
- September 11, 2012:
First ICO Alan Turing Lecture, at the Museum of Science and
Industry in Manchester at 6pm.
The inaugural lecture will be delivered by distinguished Cambridge
historian Professor
Christopher
Andrew, the
official historian of MI5,
who will be discussing the life and work of Turing.
Places are limited - to gain admission, email the
The Information Commissioner's Office at:
ICO -
Audio recording of Professor Andrew's lecture
- September 11 - December 20, 2012:
GO ASK
A.L.I.C.E:
Turing Tests, Parlor Games, & Chatterbots, at Harvard University - an
exhibition exploring the strange after-life of the Turing Test as
it has circulated in popular, scientific, and commercial cultures.
Wed., Sep 19, 6:00-8:00pm and
Thurs., Sep 20, 6:00-8:00pm - Reception, plus Theatre Preformance.
Actors from the American Repertory Theater graduate institute bring
to life transcripts of computer-human dialogue, archival materials, letters, and
scripted scenes. In so doing, they give body to the question "Can Machines Think?" -
POSTER.
Contact:
Stephanie Dick
- September 12, 2012:
Computability and Logic: Celebrating the Alan Turing Year in Brazil,
a special session of the Colloquium Logicae
organized by
the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science, and
held at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP).
The event will consist of a Round Table discussion Turing and the faces of
a Machine with speakers Walter Carnielli, Itala D`Ottaviano (UNICAMP) and
Renata Wassermann (USP ),
and followed by a lecture by
Prof. Dr. Sue Black (University College, London). Event co-sponsored by the Science and Innovation Sector -
British Consulate, São Paulo and FAPESP.
Click HERE for information on other UNICAMP
events under the heading Alan
Turing 100 Years.
Contact:
Walter Carnielli
- September 12-14, 2012:
19th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning - TIME 12,
at the De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Professor Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark,
Lyngby, Denmark) will give an invited talk about connections between Turing's
Halting Problem and temporal logic as well as other work by Turing related to
the conference's focus on temporal representation and reasoning in computer
science.
Contact:
Ben Moszkowski
- September 13, 20 and 27, 2012:
ALAN TURING
OU LES FONDATIONS DE L'INFORMATIQUE - Trois Thématiques, Trois Conférences
English
page
- September 13-14, 2012:
Dni Alana Turinga, at the Univerzita Komenského Bratislava,
with support from a number of organisations, including
the British Council Slovakia. Introduced by Her Majesty's
Ambassador Mrs Susannah Montgomery, the varied programme includes a strong list of
distinguished local and international speakers.
Contact:
Branislav Rovan
- September 13-15, 2012:
Colloquium Logicum 2012,
at Heinz-Nixdorf-Museumsforum, Paderborn.
Beyond the focus on Alan Turing and the history and philosophy of computing,
the conference will cover the whole range of mathematical logic and the foundations
of the exact sciences, in particular, logic in philosophy,
computer science and artificial intelligence.
The submission deadline is Sunday, 15 July 2012.
Part of the
Alan Turing Jahr 2012.
Contact:
Benedikt Löwe
- September 14, 2012:
Alan
Turing Centenary Celebration, at Monash University, ROTUNDA - Building 8, lecture theatre R4
at the Clayton Campus,
from 9:30 to 1:30 pm. This local celebration consists of a series of short talks, aimed at
a general audience, followed by lunch. Speakers include: Graham Farr (on Alan Turing),
David Albrecht (Turing machines), Ron Steinfeld (Turing and Cryptography),
Arun Konagurthu (Turing and Morphogenesis), Kevin Korb (The Turing Test),
David Dowe (A universal intelligence test).
Event is free -
FULL PROGRAMME and RECORDINGS of all lectures.
Contact:
Graham Farr
- September 14 - November 1, 2012:
Hugh Whitemore's play
Breaking the Code,
performed by
The University Players on tour:
- 14 September 2012: Paderborn, Germany
- 19 September 2012: Braunschweig, Germany
- 4 October 2012: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (tbc)
- 5 October 2012: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 26 October 2012: Hamburg, Germany (tbc)
- 1 November 2012: Almere, The Netherlands
This is a very special opportunity to experience Hugh Whitemore's celebrated play
about Alan Turing, based on Andrew Hodges' biography, one which is denied those in the UK and USA during the
2012 Turing Centenary Year,
due to perfomance rights constraints.
Contact:
Benedikt Löwe
- September 16-21, 2012:
Informatik 2012,
at Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Technische Universität
Braunschweig. Part of the
Alan Turing Jahr 2012.
Contact:
Wolfgang Thomas
- September 19-24, 2012:
Interdisciplinary Symposium
on Complex Systems - ISCS 2012,
at Kypriotis Hotels and Conference Center,
Kos Island, Greece.
This year, the Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems
is also part of the Alan Turing Year.
Poster.
Contacts: Ali Sanayei,
Hector Zenil
- September 19-24, 2012:
Turing
Centenary: Cesena and Urbino Celebrations, including:
- La Natura dell'Artificiale, XV Scuola Estiva di Filosofia
della Fisiaca per i cento anni dalla nascita di A. M. Turing, 19-24 Settembre 2012 at
Centro Culturale San Biagio, Via Aldini 24, Cesena, Italy;
- Concerto al Teatro Bonci
Suite in Cinque Movimenti per Alan Turing, 24 Settembre 2012 at Cesena, Teatro Bonci; and
- Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
THE LEGACY OF ALAN M. TURING - A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work
of Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954), September 25-27, 2012 at
Palazzo Albani, Via Timoteo Viti 10, Urbino.
Contact:
Mario Alai
- September 20-21, 2012:
Alan Turing Centenary Commemoration -
at the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.
Programme
includes plenary talks and expositions about many aspects of Turing's work - e.g.
computability and the halting problem, morphogenesis, AI and the imitation
game, unorganized neural networks and computer chess - plus biographical
landmarks. A competition will also take place in which
undergraduate and graduate students shall present creative implementation
of Turing machines. Contact:
Romis Attux
- September 22-23, 2012:
Digital
Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
to coincide with the Alan Turing Centenary.
"Have your portrait sketched by Patrick Tresset's
Paul the Robot, meet Anna Dumitriu and Alex May's
Robot Companion, take part in Tine Bech's
playful game & installation using real-time tracking technology and
join London Fieldworks' digital clinic.
- September 25-27, 2012:
Workshop on Limits of Theorem Proving,
in Rome. Workshop is devoted to Propositional Proof Complexity and its relations to neighboring disciplines such as
Computational Complexity, Logic, Reverse Mathematics and Proof Theory. By highlighting the theme of
efficient provability, the workshop contributes to the large-scale events of the Alan Turing Year 2012.
Keynote speakers include: Sam Buss, Steve Cook, Jan Krajicek and Pavel Pudlak.
Contact:
Nicola Galesi
- September 26-28, 2012:
IFIP Theoretical Computer Science 2012 (TCS 2012),
held at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam.
Part of the
Alan Turing Jaar 2012 in the Netherlands.
Contact:
Karin Blankers
- September 27, 2012:
The Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory Lecture, at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Harwell, Oxford, 15:00 in R22 Lecture Theatre. With Prof.
S.Barry Cooper speaking on
From Newton to Turing: Physics and the Computational Constraint.
Contact:
Bob Bingham
- September 28 - October 28, 2012:
Breaking
the Code in Baltimore - a production by the Performance Workshop Theatre,
directed by Marlyn G. Robinson.
More details from Baltimore Broadway World.
- September 29-30, 2012:
5th Eastern Great
Lakes Theory of Computation Workshop at Davis Hall, University at Buffalo North Campus.
This year, the workshop will celebrate the legacy of Alan Turing as
part of the Alan Turing Year. Speakers: Randall Dipert (Buffalo),
Juris Hartmanis (Cornell),
Dick Lipton (Georgia),
Amir Nayyeri (Carnegie Mellon),
Laura Sanità (Waterloo),
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (Toronto).
Contact:
Atri Rudra
OCTOBER onwards
- October 4, 2012:
National Press Club Event to Honor Birth Centenary of Alan Turing,
Father of Computer Age
at the U.S. National Press Club, Washington.
"In advance of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. theatre
premieres later in the month and a national cable TV broadcast later
this year, the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.,
is convening a
sneak
preview and panel discussion of 'Codebreaker', the
acclaimed new 53-minute film about Alan Turing's heroic life, tragic
death and lasting legacy. The screening and panel discussion will
begin at 7 p.m., preceded by a ticketed reception at 6 p.m."
- October 5, 2012:
turing100.nl: Celebrating Alan Turing's
100th birthday in the Netherlands
will feature five speakers, two from history of computing, two from the
research areas resting on Turing's ideas, and the science journalist Bennie Mols who published
the book
Turings Tango. Waarom de mens de computer de baas blijft. In the evening, the
University Players Hamburg
will perform Hugh Whitemore's
Breaking the Code about
Alan Turing's life and work. The meeting will be open for all researchers in the fields of
logic, artificial intelligence, history of computing, and theoretical computer science;
it will serve as a forum for Dutch researchers to meet international top experts.
Contact:
Benedikt Löwe
- October 5, 2012:
Machines, Algorithms and Computer Science
in the Centenary Celebrations of Alan Turing,
"a day of reflection on the influence that Turing had in the sciences
and the historical/technology aspects related to the definitions of
algorithm and universal machine." Organised at the
Department of Philosophy, Aldo Mori University of Bari, Italy.
Visiting invited speakers include Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Gabriele Lolli,
Guglielmo Tamburrini and Roberto Cordeschi.
Contact:
Carla Petrocelli
- October 6-7, and October 9-10, 2012:
Alan Turing - Creator of Intellectual Currents:
• Oct. 6-7:
Event at
The Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India. Includes plenary Lectures by Turing laureate Prof.
Raj Reddy (CMU, USA) and by Prof. Kurt Mehlhorn
(Max Planck Institute, Germany), and a number of other events
including a screening of Code-Breaker, biographical movie
on Alan Turing.
• Oct. 9-10:
Event at Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Includes
H V Sahasrabuddhe Endowment Lecture on Inflections in Computing
by Prof. Kurt Mehlhorn (Max Planck Institute, Germany), and
a screening of Code-Breaker.
Events part of the
Alan Turing Year 2012 in India.
Contact:
T. V. Gopal
- October 8 - November 9, 2012:
Alan Turing's Intuition and Ingenuity -
A major exhibition of art inspired by code breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing
at the Phoenix, Leicester's independent cinema and art centre.
Intuition and Ingenuity is curated by Sue Gollifer, Nick Lambert
and Anna Dumitriu. Supported by The University of
Hertfordshire and the Computer Arts society (CAS).
Find out more
- October 9 - November 20, 2012:
Further talks in the
Alan Turing Centenary 2012 in Calgary series of events:
• Oct. 9: Przemysaw Prusinkiewicz (University of Calgary) on
Alan Turing and the Patterns of Life
• Nov. 6: Chris Waters (Williams College) on
Alan Turing, the Politics of Sexual Science, and the Making of a Gay Icon
• Nov. 20: Nicole Wyatt (University of Calgary) on
Turing and Intelligent Machines
All at 4pm in ICT 121, University of Calgary, Canada.
- October 10-12, 2012:
Turing in Context II -
Historical and Contemporary Research in Logic, Computing Machinery and AI,
sponsored by and organized at the
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
Brussels, Belgium. The workshop aims at gaining a better and deeper understanding of
Turing's work and legacy by bringing together historians, philosophers,
logicians and
computer scientists who work on topics that are relevant
to one of the many fields Turing
has contributed to. Deadline Submission of Abstracts: July 20, 2012.
Photo of
participants
Contacts: Liesbeth De Mol and
Giuseppe Primiero
- October 10, 2012 - March 22, 2013:
An exhibition ALAN TURING -
LEGACY FOR COMPUTING AND HUMANITY,
at the Museum of the Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Aims to present Alan Turing's major contributions to Computer
Science and to civilization, through interactive installations which
will highlight his main achievements to Science and to Society.
Promoted by the Institute of
Informatics/UFRGS, British Consulate General in São Paolo
and the
British Consulate in Porto Alegre: "Showing the life and work of Alan Turing, the exhibition will cover
the main aspects and achievements of this great mathematician. From
Enigma's Machine and Turing's decisive role in the World War 2, his
importance in the mathematics and artificial inteligence, including a
Turing Test for the visitors, and aspects of his personal life will
be presented for the public."
Contact:
Dante Barone
- October 11, 2012:
Alan Turing's B-Day
celebration, at the University of South Florida
St. Petersburg (USF), St. Petersburg Florida. Including lecture
Breaking the Code:
Alan Turing and Other Valuable Eccentrics in WWII by Dr
Scott Perry, 6pm, Poynter Corner (Poynter Library).
Contact:
Leon Hardy
- October 12-13, 2012:
Alan Turing's Legacy, in Rome.
To be held at the Philosophy Departments of University of Rome Three (Oct. 12), and
University La Sapienza of Rome (Oct. 13).
"This Italian seminar does not aim to be a celebration at all. Our proposal is twofold:
on one hand we wish to discuss the real Alan Turing, his true projects, his scientific
and technical objectives, his philosophical inspirations, his agenda,
and the scientific contemporary groups who influenced and were influenced by his work;
on the other hand we wish to analyze what is still alive of Turing's inheritance and
which are the fields, that are still inspired by his insights." Includes an impressive
list of speakers (tbc).
Contact: Teresa Numerico
- October 13, 2012:
CODEBREAKER at ESPACE-TURING,
14:30 at Université Nice, Campus St Jean d'Angely,
Amphi 4 - Campus St Jean d'Angely, Rue du 22è BCA, 06300 Nice, France.
Affiche
- October 16, 2012:
METU
Remembers Turing: What is Computation to me?,
10am-5pm, at the Middle East Technical University (METU) Informatics Institute,
Ankara, Turkey. A one-day conference in which researchers discuss what kind of role
computing plays in their fields and how - with the aim of achieving a mutual
understanding of what computation means to us, and whether these
perspectives suggest different kinds of computation. There will also be an
unveiling of a
bust of Alan
Turing (by sculptor
Aysel Alver) at the University during the day.
Contact: Cem Bozsahin
Group photo of participants (4MB)
- October 17, 2012:
Royal Society History of Science
Public Lecture by Andrew Hodges on
Alan Turing: Not Just a Beautiful Mind, 6:30pm at the Royal Society,
6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG.
"This talk will introduce Alan Turing as someone who combined a wide range
of mathematical advances with far-sighted application, entirely true to
the foundation of the Royal Society, but a rarity in the
modern world of highly specialised expertise."
This event is free to attend and open to all. No tickets are required.
Doors open at 6pm and seats will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
- October 17, 2012:
U.S. Premiere of
CODEBREAKER, 7:30pm at
AMC Loews Georgetown 14,
3111 K Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20007.
Organised by TODpix, in conjunction with Story Center Productions, LLC and Furnace, Ltd.
Also shown in New York on October 25 (see below).
Creator and Executive Producer Patrick Sammon will make an appearance at each event and hold a
live Q&A session with the audience.
Ticket details.
- October 18, 2012:
Public Lecture: Alan Turing, the Birth of Computing,
and the Power of Mathematics,
5:30-6:30pm, Hunter Council Chamber, Hunter Building,
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Speaker: Professor
Rod Downey FRS New Zealand.
SLIDES
- October 20, 2012:
The Code Breaker: Alan Turing at the Guildford Book Festival,
with Apollo Theatre Company honouring the centenary of Alan Turing's birth with an
evening celebrating the scientist, the man and his time.
Evening directed by popular local director Tim Astley, with cast of local professional actors.
Replaces the rehearsed and dramatised reading of Hugh Whitemore's Breaking
the Code, originally advertised. 7:30pm in the Electric Theatre
- October 22, 2012:
La Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano organiza foro sobre el legado de Alan Turing in Bogota, Colombia.
Brief translation of details: Forum Legacy of Alan Turing at University of
Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Colombia. Programme includes talks about the
legacy of Alan Turing for different aspects of science such as pure
research, applied research and experimental development. Organizer
Oswaldo Vélez Langs. There will be three invited speakers (one
international and two nationals) - including
Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
VP of Yahoo! Research for Europe and Latin America
- October 22, 2012:
Alan Turing Inspired Maths Enrichment Day at the University of Essex .
To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the University of Essex
are delivering a series of lectures aimed at Year 10 students.
Dr Abdel Salhi and Dr Christopher Saker will talk about the great work of
Turing and Dr James Grime from the Enigma Project will discuss cryptography
and Turings's contribution to the cracking of the Enigma.
- October 23-24, 2012:
International Symposium: The Alan Turing Legacy, Fundación Ramón Areces, Vitruvio, 5, 28006
Madrid. Excellent programme, many talks relevant to Turing research legacy (in English).
Contact: Manuel de León
or
David Ríos Insua
- October 25, 2012:
Turing 100 Anys:
Turing and Beyond: from Embryos to Synthetic Biological Computers,
with Ricard Solé
(Investigador ICREA & Director del Complex Systems Lab),
19:00h at Institut
d'Estudis Catalans (IEC), C/Carme 47, 08001 Barcelona
- October 26-27, 2012:
Turing under Discussion - 2012 Annual Meeting
of the
Swiss
Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science SSLPS,
at the ETH Zürich,
Switzerland. Confirmed speakers: Barry Cooper,
Jack Copeland, Martin Davis, Juraj Hromkovic,
Ueli Maurer, Stewart Shapiro, Christof Teuscher, Wolfgang Thomas.
Contacts: Giovanni Sommaruga (Chair organizing committee),
Thomas Strahm (President SSLPS)
- October 27, 2012:
ALAN TURING: pioniere dell'era digitale -
Scienzagiovane, a project aimed at the popularization of science, and
the
Department of Computer Science DISI of the University of Bologna
celebrate
Alan Turing in a public meeting with high school and university students.
The purpose is to make young people aware of the ingeniuosness of the
scientist and of how his work deeply influenced our lives.
- October 27-28, 2012:
blinc Digital Arts Festival - BLINC 2012,
Conwy, Wales. In 2012 blinc 2012 will commemorate
the Alan Turing centenary. A selection of artists are creating site-specific work to run
along side the Alan Turing Centenary celebrations. The BBC Space are also covering the commissions online.
The whole town will again play host to lots of different
artforms from all over the world. Large Scale projections, VJ events,
live performance will all have a platform.
Anna Demitriu, the curator of the touring Turing Centenary Exhibition will also be exhibiting a
selection of Artworks at the Festival. The exhibition features an eclectic mix of artworks
all inspired by the Alan Turing legacy.
Press
Release (large file).
Contact: Craig Morrison
- October 27-November 4, 2012:
Manchester Science Festival 2012 - a number of
special Turing centenary event, at various venues. Including:
- Sun 28 Oct 2012 4pm -
Spirals Count with Jonathan Swinton and researchers
from The University of Manchester, at
MOSI,
Liverpool Road, Castlefield, Manchester, M3 4FP
- Fri 2 Nov 2012 11am - 12 noon -
Alan Turing in Manchester: His Last Years and Legacy,
speaker James Sumner of The University of Manchester's
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine,
discusses the life and work of a complex twentieth-century icon, at
The Manchester Museum,
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
- Sat 3 Nov 2012 12 noon - 2pm - Alan Turing: Tortured Genius of the Computer Age,
a guided walk celebrating Alan Turing, starts
The Manchester Museum reception
- October 28, 2012:
Premiere of Enigma, The Life and Death of Alan Turing,
a work
for tenor, video, and 6-track tape by composer
Barry
Truax. At the Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall, University of Manchester.
an unstaged but dramatic rendition of two key periods in Turing's
personal life, the
first from his early years when he became infatuated with the brilliant
Christopher Morcom who died young, and the second from his final years when he was
convicted of gross indecency (as was Oscar Wilde more than a half century earlier)
because of a homosexual liaison and eventually committed suicide. Separated by
piano and multi-channel soundscape piece
From
The Unseen World. For
tickets see here.
With support from: Canada Council for the Arts, Wellcome Trust, Manchester Science Festival,
Novars Research Centre, School of Arts,
Languages and Cultures and the department of Music (University of Manchester)
- October 29, 2012 - January 25, 2013:
Turing100 Lecture Series @ UNB Saint John, Canada:
- Oct. 29: Carlyle Adams
- Nov. 13: Srini Sampalli and Jake Van der Laan
- Jan. 25: Manuela M Veloso
Contact:
Janet Light Thompson
- October 30, 2012:
Scientists, Science and Society Series at Swansea: What
can we compute? A history of the Church-Turing Hypothesis, with speaker
Prof John V Tucker. Part of the Seminar on History of Science and Technology of the
College of Science, and the PCV seminar of the Department of Computer Science.
More details
NOVEMBER onwards
- November 1, 2012:
ATIA Alan Turing Year Conference -
A one-day workshop organised by and at the
Alan Turing Institute Almere,
The Netherlands. Keynote speaker:
Michael Wooldridge. With: Catholijn Jonker, Linda van der Gaag,
Niels Peek, Pieter Kubben, Cilia Witteman and Pieter Adriaans.
Contact: John-Jules Meyer (Chief Scientific Officer of the Alan Turing Institute Almere)
- November 2, 2012:
Alan Turing in Manchester: His last years and legacy,
at The Manchester Museum, 11am - 12 noon.
2012 marks the centenary of Alan Turing, the computer visionary who
spent his last six years at the University of Manchester. In his
final work, Turing moved away from designing computers to examine how
they could be used, modelling life processes and pondering the
prospect of thinking machines. In this talk, James Sumner of the
University of Manchester's Centre for the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine, discusses the life and work of a complex
twentieth-century icon.
- November 3-25, 2012:
ENIGMA - Microwave International New Media
Arts Festival, in Hong Kong. Includes a number of events and exhibitions
related to the Alan Turing legacy:
- November 5-16, 2012:
Hamabostaldia Alan Turingen omenez
- see webpage, in Spanish/Basque, for details
- November 5 - December 10, 2012:
En torno a la figura de Alan Turing: desarrollos tecnológicos
e implicaciones sociales de los logros científicos,
a course about Alan Turing and his contributions to
different sciences. Organised by
the Computer Science Department at the Carlos III University of Madrid.
Contact: David Griol Barres
- November 6, 2012:
The Mathematical Objection:
Turing, Gödel, and Penrose on the Mind, a special lecture by
Professor Jack Copeland,
the University of Canterbury,
New Zealand, at BCS London, Tuesday, November 6th. Organised by
BCS FACS Specialist Group. Bookings by Nov. 6 -
POSTER
- November 6-8, 2012:
Haifa Verification Conference 2012 (HVC 2012),
at IBM Research - Haifa, located on the University of Haifa campus, Mount
Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
HVC 2012 is dedicated to advancing the state-of the-art and state-of-the-practice
in verification and testing.
In memory of Alan Turing, whose 100th anniversary is celebrated in 2012,
HVC 2012 will host a special session on Security Verification.
Conference submission deadline: July 18, 2012. Contact:
Alex Goryachev, IBM, Haifa
- November 7, 2012:
La Mela Di Alan - La vera
storia del padre del primo computer, a 'cybertragicommedia' written and directed by
Valeria Patera. At 21:00,
Teatro Ristori, via Teatro Ristori 7, Verona.
Poster and
Postcard
- November 7, 2012 - April, 2013:
STATION X -
Documenting the unused buildings of Bletchley Park, with
the latest installment of the STATION X exhibition now on display in Alan Turing's
hut at the Bletchley Park Museum until April 2013. The critically
acclaimed exhibition (featured on BBC Radio 4's Today programme)
offers a multi-sensory insight into the disused buildings of Bletchley Park.
See BBC News:
In pictures: Bletchley Park decay
Contact: Maya Ramsey
- November 8, 2012:
Sessão de Homenagem a Alan Turing at
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 14:30. Speakers include
Luís Antunes, José Félix Costa,
Sofia Miguens, Carlos Lourenço.
Contact:
Fernando Ferreira
- November 8, 2012:
Showing of CODEBREAKER film
7:30pm at Pacific Place 11,
600 Pine St.,
Seattle, WA 98101, USA.
Also showing in
Los Angeles,
Ft. Lauderdale and
Philadelphia.
- November 9, 2012:
Alan Turing's Legacy: from Universal
Turing Machine to Artificial Intelligence
, Part 3 of a trilogy with speaker Cambridge Wong. 7-9pm, LT6, 2/F,
Yasumoto International Acadmic Park, CUHK
- November 9, 2012:
The Computer as
Computational Data - a Multifaceted Turing Legacy, lecture by S.
Barry Cooper on the occasion of the Alan
Turing Centenary Year, at Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City.
Contact: Francisco
Hernández
- November 11-12, 2012:
Alan Turing Centenary Conference TURING 100, organised by
the
Center
for Philosophy & History of Science and the
Hariri Institute for Computing and
Computational Science & Engineering, Boston University.
Themes include: I. Turing and Mathematics: Recursion, Probability, and Definability;
II. Turing, Logical Foundations, and Philosophy; III. Turing and Cryptography;
IV. Turing and Models of Computation; V. Turing and AI, with a remarkable
list of speakers.
POSTER
Contact: Alisa Bokulich
- November 13, 2012:
Turing100 Lecture Series @ UNB Saint John, Canada:
Srini Sampalli and Jake Van der Laan
- November 14, 2012:
Alan Turing: Computer Pioneer -
a Turing Centenary event at the University of Newcastle (2pm-6.30pm
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building), with
speakers Doron Swade (formerly Science
Museum, London), Martin Campbell Kelly (Warwick), and Cliff Jones
and Brian Randell (both Newcastle). The talks will be versions of the talks
they are giving at other events during the year, probably slightly
re-focussed for a student audience. Whilst this event is primarily for
students, the lectures are open to the public.
REGISTER -
Event accompanied by a
small
exhibition of materials and an on-line resources guide, prepared by the
Newcastle University
library. REPORT
Contact: John Lloyd
- November 15, 2012:
LGBT History Month 2013 Pre-Launch Meeting,
to be held at Bletchley Park as a tribute to Alan Turing on
the centenary of his birth. LGBT History Month in February 2013 will be
focused on Maths, science and technology. The pre-launch meeting will
deal with maths, ICT and science in the school curriculum.
From the
organisers: "It is vital that our children
understand the contribution Alan Turing made to our nation, to technology
and mathematics and the legacy he gave to the world. It is equally vital
that they know how the state treated him before and after they realised
he was gay." The November launch will
include daytime activities for schoolchildren,
workshops and ideas for stakeholders in LGBT History Month and an evening
with keynote speakers.
TICKETS, Poster
Contact:
Tony Fenwick
- November 16, 2012:
Alan Turing Centenary Lecture as part of theScience Alive
Festival in Hong Kong - Professor
Sethu Vijayakumar
(Director of the Robots Institute at the University of Edinburgh) speaking on
Robots: The Future of Man or "Man of the Future"?, 2.15pm and 4pm at Lecture Hall and Lecture Hall lobby,
Hong Kong Science Museum - demonstrating with various robots!
Science
Alive is organised in association with the British Council, The Education Bureau, and
The Hong Kong Education City Limited -
Programme brochure
- November 16, 2012:
Workshop in honour of Alan Turing:
Taller de Teoría de la
Computación 2012 ,
at Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City.
Distinguished list of speakers, including Martin Davis.
Contacts: Francisco
Hernández, Sergio Rajsbaum
- November 16-17, 2012:
Alan Turing Days in Lausanne,
hosted by the School of Computer and Communication Sciences of the
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. The
programme includes, among other activities, talks by the distinguished
members of the Computer Science community, Professor Christos H.
Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley) and Professor Emeritius Niklaus Wirth (ETH,
Switzerland).
Details:
Contact: Anastasia Ailamaki,
Rachid Guerraoui or
Dimitra Tsaoussis-Melissargos
- November 20, 2012:
Leeds Café Scientifique, with
Barry Cooper
on
Alan Turing: The Building of a Brain.
8pm, Seven Arts,
31(a) Harrogate Road,
Chapel Allerton,
Leeds LS7 3PD.
- November 20-25, 2012:
TURING - a staged case history, a multi-media
performance at the Studio Theatre, Piccolo Theatre of Milan, Milan, Italy.
2012 is the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician, logician and
British cryptanalyst, considered one of the fathers of computer science. His thinking, development
and the logic underlying it, its principal research, take form in a multimedia show. The actor,
an ensemble of computer, and video, are the characters on stage.
With live elctronics from Massimo Marchi - More
info
- November 21, 2012:
Luncheon talk on Alan Turing at HK Convention Centre
.
Part of the program in the 2012 Hong Kong International Computer
Conference organised by the Hong Kong Computer Society.
Speaker: Professor YB Yeung, who also plays the Turing song
composed by HK writer Ms Loke Lay on the harmonica.
- November 22, 2012:
Per Il Centenario Di Alan Turing,
Fondatore Dell'Informatica, organised by
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei - Centro
Linceo Interdisciplinare "Beniamino Segre". 9:30-18:00, at Palazzo Corsini, via
della Lungara 10.
"The focus of the conference will concern all scientific activities
in which Alan Turing was engaged, but especially his intuition and
theorization of computability, and consequently the Turing Machine.
It is also an occasion to reflect on the evolution of computer
science from the years Thirties up to our days, on its impact
on information society, and on its appreciation by those who utilize
its applications. Renowned specialists will also discuss Turing's
role in other fields of mathematics, in artificial intelligence,
and in cryptography."
Speakers include:
Gabriele Lolli, Angelo R. Meo, Giorgio Ausiello, Carlo Cellucci,
Daniele Mundici, Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Pino Persiano,
Dino Buzzetti, Gino Roncaglia. See
also.
Contact: Tito Orlandi (Director
of the Centro Linceo)
- November 23, 2012:
Launch of
Take Tea with Turing, an anthology of creative work inspired by the
life and legacy of Alan Turing, edited by
Viccy Adams,
Leverhulme Trust Artist in
Residence at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
7pm
at
Inspace with an evening of readings from contributors.
- November 26, 2012:
IBM - UTS Alan Turing Public Lecture:
Artificial Intelligence - the past, present and future, 5:30pm for
6pm start,
Aerial Function Centre, Level 7, Building 10,
University of Technology, 235 Jones St, Ultimo NSW 2007,
Australia.
Celebrating the first Alan Turing century, Professor Edward Feigenbaum (Turing Award
winner)
from Stanford University will review the progress made by artificial
intelligence scientists and discuss the future of robotics.
Special Appearance by GUTSY - UTS PR2 (Second generation personal robot).
Register (numbers limited)
Contact: UTS Outreach
- November 26, 2012:
In Rome:
ALAN TURING, IL PADRE DEL PRIMO COMPUTER, A CEN'ANNI DALLA NASCITA,
an official panel for TURING CENTENARY supported
by Fondazione Camera dei Deputati.
17.30,
Nuova Aula dei Gruppi Parlamentari della Camera dei Deputati, via Campo Marzio, 78, Roma.
Four prestigious academics as discussants:
- TERESA NUMERICO - A Turing portrait, the man and the scientist
- ROBERTO GIACOBAZZI - Computable and uncomputable
- LUIGIA CARLUCCI AIELLO - Turing and the Machine Intelligence
- ROBERTO CORDESCHI - Alan Turing and the discovery of the artificial
- videoclip on Turing life and work
- debate with the audience
To attend, subscription is essential. Please confirm your name to
timosturing @ gmail.com or to 3312102332
(DRESS CODE: DARK / JACKET FOR MEN)
Contact: Valeria Patera
- November 27, 2012:
Prof Mark Chaplain on
Alan Turing: Much more than an enigma -
To mark the centenary of Turing's birth,
Prof Chaplain explores his extraordinary legacy, highlighting his work in
mathematical biology and the profound influence that D'Arcy Thompson had on his ideas.
5:30pm, D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum in the Carnelley Building, University of Dundee
- November 28, 2012:
William
Newman:
Alan Turing Remembered - A rare
opportunity to hear William Newman,
Computer Scientist and son of Turing's mentor,
Professor Max Newman, speaking on his times with Alan Turing
in Manchester.
In Room 3 of University Lecture Rooms,
8 Mill Lane,
University of the Third Age in Cambridge.
Starts 2:15pm. Entry for non-members
2 pounds.
Abstracts of lectures
- November 28, 2012:
Showing of
CODEBREAKER in Hamburg,
18:15-20:00 Grosses Kino des Abaton (in
one of the main cinemas of the University quarter). Part of the
Deutsches Alan Turing-Jahr.
Download poster
Contact: Benedikt Löwe
- November 28, 2012:
Premiere
performance of
TO KILL A MACHINE by Catrin Fflur Huws, 7:45pm
at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. A new play
"about the wartime code-breaker Alan Turing,
whose pioneering work considered whether a machine could think.
At the heart of the play is a powerful love story which questions the
meaning of humanity, and the importance of freedom."
BOOK ONLINE
Continues at
Sherman Cymru, 6pm
on November 29. Also, December 5 at Swansea University (see below).
- November 29 - December 3, 2012:
Four Days of meetings and conferences in Lecce and
Bari, Puglia, on
Turing, Apple and Quanta - The Information as
Fifth Element , with `metaphysicist'
Ignazio Licata. Presented by The Cultural Association Oistros,
in collaboration with the Academy of Fine
Arts in Bari, University of Salento;
with the contribution of Officine Cultural Ergot (Lecce), colon Editions
(Palermo), Presidium of the Book (Sannicola), Voice Vegan Bar and Radio
Voice (Campi Salentina). For details see
POSTER
- November 29, 2012 - April 4, 2013:
OTHER LIVES, an exhibition inspired by Alan Turing.
Curated by artist Maayan Sheleff, and featuring fellow artists
Turing Dames, Yonatan Ben-Simhon, Jack Kalisch, Nurit Bar-Shai,
Noa Geniger, Eran Hadas, Mushon Zer Aviv, Guy Yitzhaki, Jürg
Lehni, Oz Malul, Miri Segal, Or Even-Tov, Adam Kaplan, Alexei Shulgin,
Assaf Shaham, LoVid, Missdata, Other Lives
commemorates the life and work of the man who is widely regarded as
the father of the modern computer. Some of the featured art was composed
especially for the exhibition, while other works form a fascinating,
entertaining, multi-layered context for Turing's studies and research,
principally artificial intelligence and the relationship between man and machine.
Showing at the
Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem, until April 2013.
Invitation
to the opening
- November 30, 2012:
Conmemoración 100 años De Alan Turing en la UIS,
at the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia:
"La Faculdad de Ciencias de la
Universidad Industrial de Santander, la Escuela de Matemáticas, La
Fundación
Alan Turing para la ciencia y la tecnología
y la Comunidad Universitaria de Software Libre (CUSOL) invitan a celebrar
el centenario del nacimiento del genial matemático
inglé, Alan Turing, pilar de la computación
contemporánea, en el marco de la Conmemoración
mundial del Año Turing / Año de la Informática."
"On next
November 30, we will celebrate Turing Year with an afternoon of
lectures, talks, video presentations and the obligatory toast. ...
Extending our joy to commemorate Turing and assert his legacy in
Colombia and around the world, we invite you to visit our
website,
and our FB
biography" -
See the
event FaceBook page and
further details here
2:00 - 7:00pm, Sala Sergio Gamboa, Edificio Camilo Torres.
Invitado Especial: Juan Andrés Montoya.
POSTER
See
FOTOGRAFIAS from the meeting.
Contact: Angye Gaona
DECEMBER
- December 1, 2012:
Computer History Tour of Melbourne,
dedicated to Alan Turing. One of a unique series -
Melbourne has several remarkable links to the earliest days of computers, and
these tours seem to be the first of their kind in the world. The organisers have now run
about a dozen of them, starting in 2008. Photo (right) from the CSIRAC exhibit at the
Melbourne Museum -
CSIRAC was
Australia's first computer. An international icon of the digital age, CSIRAC
was the fourth stored-program computer in the world to run a program, and
is the only intact first-generation computer surviving anywhere in the world.
Tour
starting at the Caulfield campus of Monash University at 8:45am and finishing at about 5pm.
Free, but booking essential.
Contact: Graham Farr
- December 4, 2012:
IMA Public
Lecture with Andrew Hodges: Alan Turing: The Power of Mathematical
Discovery. "These engaging and informative lectures are
designed for a broad audience, appropriate for middle-school students
and older. This well-established series regularly draws diverse audiences
of several hundred people. ... Andrew Hodges' talk will illustrate
the way that Turing seized on a great range of mathematical ideas
and turned them into world-changing discoveries." 7pm in
Room 175 Willey Hall, at the University
of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
POSTER
- December 4, 2012:
:
Alan Turing Centenary: Turing and Intelligent Machines.
This
lecture by Nicole Wyatt
(University of Calgary)
will explain the Turing Test as well as Turing's
more general views concerning the prospects for artificial intelligence
and examine both the criticisms of the test and Turing's rebuttals.
4:00pm - 5:30pm, ICT 121 (Lecture Theatre 5)
- December 4, 2012:
NW Engineers'
Christmas Lecture: The Four Facets of Alan Turing
and our work on Morphogenesis -
See Manchester
Evening News report on speaker Prof. Bernard Richards' account
of his time as a young research student of Alan Turing.
This Talk will demonstrate that Alan Turing was a man of many talents,
but that these were not all recognised simultaneously during his life-time:
indeed, some were not fully recognised until after his death.
BCS Manchester Branch, from 6:00-8:00pm, at Manchester Metropolitan University,
John Dalton Building,
Oxford Road (All Saints Campus)
M15 6BH Manchester. REGISTER
- December 4-6, 2012:
Special lecture as part of short speaking tour by
Prof. S. Barry Cooper on:
Alan Turing and the Computing Revolution:
Ten Big Ideas that Changed the World, at the Universidade Federal Do Rio
Grande Do Sul,
Porto Alegre.
This lecture
forms the final installment of the
Alan Turing - Legacy for Computing and Humanity Special Lecture Series, organised
by UFRGS and sponsored by the
Institute for Informatics at
UFRGS and the
British Consulate in Brazil.
10:30am at UFRGS - Campus do Vale, Institute of Informatics, Auditorium of Building 67.
Lectures are
broadcast live at http://mconf.org/events/turing/.
Contacts: Profs. Marcelo
Walter and Dante
Barone
• Professor Cooper will also give this lecture
at the
Seminários GLTA-CLE e Colloquium Logicae
organized by the
Centre
for Logic, Epistemology and the History of
Science
CLE UNICAMP
in Campinas
on December 5, 2012.
Further information
Contact: Prof.
Walter Carnielli
• And also on December 6, at a seminar held by the research group in
Logic,
Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods
at the University of São Paulo, Prof. Cooper will talk
on Turing's legacy for future research into artificial Intelligence.
Contact: Prof. Renata Wassermann (USP)
Prof. Cooper's tour is sponsored by the British Embassy in Brazil,
as part of the UK in Brazil programme of events.
- December 4-7, 2012:
World Intelligence Congress
in Macau, China. As a
special event for the Alan Turing Year, the conference
has Turing Keynote Speaker
Edward Feigenbaum
(1994 Turing Award winner), from
Stanford University.
The congress includes five
intelligent informatics related conferences -
IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2012 (WI'12),
IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent
Technology 2012 (IAT'12),
Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT'12),
Brain Informatics 2012 (BI'12) and
Methodologies for
Intelligent Systems 2012 (ISMIS'12).
Contact:
Qin (Christine) Lv
- December 5, 2012:
Public Engagment Afternoon in Swansea,
to celebrate Alan Turing's Centenary - includes:
Contact: Arnold Beckmann
- December 6, 2012:
Special screening of CODEBREAKER at the AMC Empire in
Times Square - part of new request system for US public showings.
- December 7-8, 2012:
Alan Turing Centenary Year Celebrations - Workshop on Art of Computing,
at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. Accommodation
requests close November 25.
- December 8-11, 2012:
Fifth Conference on
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-12), and the
AGI
Impacts conference 2012,
held in Oxford, UK, together forming the
Winter Intelligence Conference 2012.
• Continuing the mission of the first four AGI conferences, AGI-12@Oxford gathers an
international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved in scientific
and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of artificial general intelligence.
Appropriately for this Alan Turing centenary year, this is the first AGI
conference to be held in the UK.
Contact:
Ben Goertzel.
• Full programme of AGI-12.
• Full programme of AGI-Impacts.
- December 10, 2012:
Turing Year
Enriques Lecture in Milan, with speaker Barry Cooper on
Alan Turing and the Computational Content of Causality. 16:30pm at the
Dipartimento di Matematica, v. Saldini, 50, aula Chisini, Universitá
degli studi di Milano.
Contact:
Umberto Bottazzini
- December 11, 2012:
The Alan Turing
Centenary Symposium, hosted by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
Auditório 3 (Lisboa, Portugal), 9:30 to 17:00.
"The aim of this symposium is to mark this occasion and discuss Turing's
legacy. It is organized as an interdisciplinary series of lectures by scholars dealing with the
various aspects of Turing's
work: Computer Science, Biology, Mathematics, Cognitive Science, Cryptography, History, and Society. We hope that this event can foster dialog from multiple disciplines and provide Portuguese society with a better understanding of the impact and legacy of Turing's life and work." Invited speakers
include: Sydney Brenner, David Leavitt, Luis M. Rocha,
Antonio Machiavelo, Christof Teuscher.
Info in Portuguese
- December 12, 2012:
Turing Centenary Celebration at RSC Calicut in Kerala, India:
Regional Science Centre, Calicut at Kerala, India will be
celebrating "TuringCentenaryYear 2012" with a one day conference on Wednesday 12 December,
consisting of four invited talks by leading experts.
There will also be an open digital art contest and an
open online quiz contest on Alan Turing's life and works.
To register (free), email: rscpcalicut @ dataone.in
- December 12, 2012:
Alan Wray on:
The German Enigma, the Turing British Bombe and the Bombe Rebuild,
19:00 for 19:30 at the University of Hertfordshire, Lindop Building, College Lane Campus,
AL10 9AB. Co-organised by the University of Hertfordshire and
BCS Hertfordshire.
Contact: Chris Tilley
- December 12, 2012:
A Tribute to Alan Turing at
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
(UTFPR) in Curitiba, Brazil. 15:30 - 18:00, UTFPR Auditorium.
An event to celebrate the life and research of Alan Turing,
with speakers Adolfo Neto, Jorge Stolfi.
Contact: Adolfo Neto
- December 18-20, 2012:
Alan M. Turing -
Simplification in Intelligent Computing Theory and Algorithms,
a 3-Day Faculty Development Program
at the Foundation for Advancement of Education and Research (FAER),
in Bangalore.
Will include lectures by eminent speakers on Turing, Cryptography,
Computing, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence etc,
as well as a Panel Discussion. Part of the Alan Turing Year 2012 -
India Celebrations.
Programme details.
Contact: FAER
- December 18-20, 2012:
Eventos Ãno Turing at the University of Granada
- A three-day meeting organised
by the
Escuela
Técnica Superior de Ingenierías Informática
y de Telicomunicación (ETSIIT) -
MORE INFORMATION -
VIDEO.
Contact:
Gabriel Maciá Fernández
(Subdirector of the Computer Science School
at University of Granada)
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