Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures
By Oxford University
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Description
Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June, 1912 - exactly one hundred years before this weekend meeting which celebrates his life and achievements. Although most well-known for his work at Bletchley Park in the pioneering days which saw the birth of modern practical computing; Turing had achieved fame well before the second world war, with a seminal account of theoretical computation and his solution to the Entscheidungs problem. An Olympic-class marathon runner, whose refusal to conform to the narrow sexual standards of the day led to persecution and an early death - Turing did fundamental research on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programming and even Mathematical Biology. This weekend attempts a rounded view of a polymath, one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century, his life and his times.
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Morphogenesis Then and Now | Philip Maini, Oxford University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend. | 22 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Congruent Worlds: Turing, Lovelace and Babbage | Doron Swade, Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend. | 22 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What Alan Turing might have discovered | Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research and creator of Mathematica, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend. | 22 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Turing in the History of Software | Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary Weekend. | 22 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Turing in the age of the Internet and the quantum computer | Samson Abramsky, Oxford University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend. | 22 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Decidability: The Entscheidungs problem | Robin Whitty, London South Bank University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend. | 22 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Turing and the Public Consciousness: Turing 2.0(12) | Sue Black, University College London, Turing and the Public Consciousness: Turing 2.0(12). | 22 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Welcome Address | Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University. | 22 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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