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June 15, 2012

Alan Turing Centenary Conference, 22nd-25th June 2012

Filed under: communication,conferences,engineering,programming,Science,technology — Duncan Hull @ 3:38 pm
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The Alan Turing statue at Bletchley Park. Creative commons licensed picture via Michael Dales on Flickr

Next weekend, a bunch of very distinguished computer scientists will rock up at the magnificent Manchester Town Hall for the Turing Centenary Conference in order to analyse the development of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Alan Turing’s legacy [1].

There’s an impressive and stellar speaker line-up including:

Rodney Brooks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fred Brooks, University of North Carolina Turing Award winner
Vint Cerf, Google, Turing Award winner
Edmund M. Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University, Turing Award winner
Jack Copeland, University of Canterbury
George Ellis, University of Cape Town, Templeton Prize winner
David Ferrucci, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Principal Investigator of the Watson/Jeopardy! project
Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research, Turing Award winner
Garry Kasparov, Kasparov Chess Foundation
Samuel Klein, Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation and a Director of the One Laptop per Child Foundation.
Donald Knuth, Stanford University, Turing Award winner
Yuri Matiyasevich, Institute of Mathematics, St. Petersburgh
Hans Meinhardt, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, Wolf Prize winner
Michael O. Rabin, Harvard University, Turing Award winner
Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science, Turing Award winner
Leslie Valiant, Harvard University, Turing Award winner
Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew Yao, Tsinghua University, Turing Award winner

Tickets are not cheap at £450 for four days, but you can sign up for free public lectures by Jack Copeland on Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age and Roger Penrose on the problem of modelling a mathematical mind. Alternatively, if you can lend some time, the conference organisers are looking for volunteers to help out in return for a free conference pass. Contact Vicki Chamberlin for details if you’re interested.

References

Chouard, T. (2012). Turing at 100: Legacy of a universal mind Nature, 482 (7386), 455-455 DOI: 10.1038/482455a see also nature.com/turing

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May 1, 2009

www2009: Twentieth Web Anniversary

Filed under: conferences — Duncan Hull @ 4:16 pm
Tags: Alfred Spector, Armchair delegate, Bloogle, Christopher Gutteridge, Daniel Huttenlocher, David Crandall, digital identity, EPrints, flickr, Googleology, Hermann de Meer, idMesh, Ivan Herman, Jon Kleinberg, Karl Aberer, Lars Backstrom, Madrid, Michael Jost, New Scientist, Orri Erlang, Parisa Haghani, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, TED, Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, www, www2006, WWW2007, www2008, www2009, www2010

The 18th International World Wide Web Conference, www2009 finished last week in Madrid. In times of global economic, pandemic and ecologic crisis, the value of attending international conferences is questionable, so for armchair delegates like me, here are some www papers and www links that are www worth a look. Obviously, virtual conference attendance via the Web is no substitute for The Real Thing® in Real Time with Real People® , but it is cheaper and has a considerably smaller Carbon footprint than actual conference attendance. So, in no particular order, some www interesting www stuff: (more…)