Alan Turing Centenary Conference
The Alan Turing Centenary Conference [1] is an academic conference celebrating the life and research of Alan Turing by bringing together distinguished scientists to understand and analyse the history and development of Computer Science and Artificial intelligence, and is organised by Andrei Voronkov.
The conference is hosted by the School of Computer Science, University of Manchester where Turing worked from 1948 until 1954 and ran from June 22nd to June 25th 2012 as part of Alan Turing Year[2][3][4] in Manchester Town Hall.[5]
Keynote Speakers
Speakers for the conference, many of whom are Turing Award winners, included:
- 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[6][7] 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[8]
- 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
Panelists
There were a wide range of panels[9] during the conference chaired by:
- Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford
- Ronald J. Brachman, Yahoo! Labs
- Martin Davis, New York University
- Steve Furber, University of Manchester
- Carole Goble, University of Manchester
- Pat Hayes, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
- Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich
- Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
References
- ↑ "The Alan Turing Centenary Conference Manchester UK". Turing100.manchester.ac.uk. 2012-06-23. Retrieved 2013-08-11.
- ↑ Alan Turing Centenary Conference on Twitter
- ↑ Chouard, Tanguy (2012). "Turing at 100: Legacy of a universal mind". Nature 482 (7386): 455. doi:10.1038/482455a. PMID 22358808.
- ↑ Brenner, Sydney (2012). "Turing centenary: Life's code script". Nature 482 (7386): 461. doi:10.1038/482461a. PMID 22358811.
- ↑ "Alan Turing Centenary Conference to host world's computer boffins | Manchester Evening News - May 02, 2012". Archived from the original on 2012-06-15.
- ↑ "IBM - Dr. David Ferrucci". 03.ibm.com. Retrieved 2013-08-11.
- ↑ "David Ferrucci". Turing100.manchester.ac.uk. 2011-02-14. Retrieved 2013-08-11.
- ↑ "Hans Meinhardt". Turing100.manchester.ac.uk. 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2013-08-11.
- ↑ "The Alan Turing Centenary Conference Manchester UK". Turing100.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-08-11.