TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE CiE 2012 - How the World Computes

Post date: Aug 14, 2011 4:41:37 AM

University of Cambridge

18 June - 23 June, 2012:

www.cie2012.eu

CiE 2012 is one of a series of special events, running throughout the Alan Turing Year, celebrating Turing's unique impact on mathematics, computing, computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, artificial intelligence, 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.

In this sense, CiE 2012, held in Cambridge in the week running up to the centenary of Turing's birthday, deals with the essential core of what made Turing's contribution so influential and long-lasting.

CiE 2012 promises to be an event worthy of the remarkable scientific career it commemorates.

Invited Speakers:

Andrew Hodges (Oxford,

Special Invited Lecture)

Dorit Aharonov (Jerusalem)

Lenore Blum (Carnegie

Mellon)

Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft)

Richard Jozsa (Cambridge)

James Murray (Washington/

Oxford, Microsoft Research

Cambridge Lecture)

Leslie Valiant (Harvard,

jointly organised lecture

with King's College)

Ian Stewart (Warwick,

Special Public Lecture)

Verónica Becher (Buenos

Aires)

Rodney Downey (Wellington)

Juris Hartmanis (Cornell)

Stuart Kauffman (Vermont/

Santa Fe)

Paul Smolensky (Johns

Hopkins)

CiE 2012 will be held in the central New Museums Site of the University of Cambridge. Plenary sessions will be held in the Babbage Lecture Theatre, named after Charles Babbage, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, 1828 to 1839.

More info here: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/WScie12/