Turing events

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Ray Dolan will present the 8th annual Turing Lecture in Manchester. His talk is titled 'From cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience - a hidden legacy of Alan Turing' and discusses the heritage of Turing's work, and its ongoing effects on computing today. A webcast will be published shortly after the event.

Also this week I heard about a weekend that the British Society for the History of Mathematics are supporting in Oxford, "Turing's Worlds". The description for this says:

Although most well-known for his work at Bletchley Park in the pioneering days which saw the birth of modern practical computing ... 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. We will have a number of very distinguished speakers who have themselves researched in some of the areas that Turing pioneered but our aim is an accessible and informative account of Turing's multifarious achievements.

A programme for Turing's Worlds is online now. These events fit into a wide programme of events this year for the centenary of Turing's birth, and a substantial list is maintained by the Alan Turing Year website.

The IET/BCS Manchester Turing Lecture 2012: "From cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience - a hidden legacy of Alan Turing".
Turing's Worlds weekend.
Alan Turing Year Events.