Alan Turing Year Events Overview
（1）December 13-17, 2011: Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore at at the newly refurbished Old Fire Station, on George Street, Oxford. Performed by the Oxford Theatre Guild, and directed by Kevin Elliott, who says: "For a first time director, choice of play is critical. I'd been told that a director should have fallen in love with the play if they were going to do it justice. I'd certainly fallen for Breaking the Code." Contact: Oxford Theatre Guild. Tickets available from Tickets Oxford

（2）January - December, 2012: An exhibition EMINENT & ENIGMATIC - 10 aspects of Alan Turing at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn. Its aim is to present Alan Turing's outstanding achievements to visitors in the form of original exhibits and innovative and artistic installations. For details of the opening event GENIAL & GEHEIM, 19:00 on January 10, you can download the flyer. Contact: Andreas Stolte

（3）January 4-5, 2012: AMS-ASL Special Session on The Life and Legacy of Alan Turing at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA. The session, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, will include 14 hours of talks, intended to cover the full breadth of Turing's contributions, ranging from mathematical logic and theoretical computer science to cryptography, numerical analysis, philosophy of mind, and morphogenesis. Confirmed speakers include: M. Minsky, S. Kauffman, Craig Bauer, J. Knight, J. Miller, K. Eisentrager, M. Davis, G. Sacks, W. Sieg and T. Slaman.
Deadline for abstracts for proposed talks: September 22, 2011. Electronic submission of abstracts is through the AMS website. Organisers: Damir Dzhafarov, Jeff Hirst and Carl Mummert

（4）January 9 - July 6, 2012: Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing, at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge. Organisers: Arnold Beckmann, Barry Cooper, Benedikt L?we, Elvira Mayordomo, Nigel Smart

（5）January 9: Workshop on The Mathematical Legacy of Alan Turing. Public opening of the SAS programme (Spitalfields Day) - all interested researchers and postgraduate students are invited to attend. The London Mathematical Society supports the Spitalfields Day by providing a limited number of modest travel grants for UK postgraduate students. Organiser: Benedikt L?we

（6）January 12 onwards: Turing Year in Iceland - A series of events to celebrate the Alan Turing Centenary, organised by the Icelandic Centre of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science (ICE-TCS) at the University of Reykjavik, jointly with the Icelandic Mathematical Society, CADIA and IIIM. Report and audio recording of first talk. Contact: Luca Aceto

（7）January 13-15, 2012: MAMLS (Mid-Atlantic Mathematical Logic Seminar) 2012, organised in association with the Florida Atlantic University with a Turing emphasis. Includes a number of stellar speakers in logic, and special guest speaker David Leavitt, author of The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Conference venue: Wyndham Deerfield Beach Resort. Contact: Robert Lubarsky

（8）January 19, 2012: Turing's legacy or What did Turing ever do for us? - BCS Central London Branch meeting, at BCS, Southampton Street, London, arrive 18:00 for a 18:30 start. Non-members welcome. Speakers: Dr Sue Black, University College London; Dr Peter J Bentley, Visiting Fellow at SIMTech, A*STAR; Julian Wilson, Associate Director, Christie's; Sarah Winmill, Director of IT for Support Services, University College London. Contact: Sue Black

（9）January 20, 2012: Alan Turing, eclettico e stravagante : un omaggio al grande matematico nel centenario della nascita at SUPSI, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana, Lugano-Canobbio, Campus Trevano, Switzerland. Presented by Piergiorgio Odifreddi, mathematician, logician and essay writer. Professor Odifreddi will touch on the most important events of Alan Turing's life as well as aspects of his personality, while concentrating on the scientific value and the cultural impact of Turing's innovative work. Contact: Grazia K?llner

（10）January 21-27, 2012: 38th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2012), in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic. The 2012 SOFSEM will include a Special Session on Turing Machines, as part of the Foundations of Computer Science track. Organising chair: Julius Stuller

（11）January 24, 2012 onwards: Alan Turing Centenary 2012 in Calgary . The University of Calgary will offer a series of talks on Turing's work throughout the Winter and Fall 2012 terms. The Telus Spark Science Centre in Calgary will also host some events related to Turing as part of their Adults Only Thursday night series and the Calgary Science Café. Lectures online here. Contact: Richard Zach

（12）January 31 - February 2, 2012: Is Cryptographic Theory Practically Relevant?, in association with the Newton Institute programme Semantics and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing, in Cambridge. Aims to bring together researchers who work in theoretical aspects of cryptography (principally, provable security of protocols) with people working on applied aspects of cryptography, particularly people involved in standardization and in industrial deployment of cryptography. Organisers: Kenny Patterson, Nigel Smart

（13）February 5-11, 2012: Workshop Computability Theory at Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. Participation by invitation only. Contact: Klaus Ambos-Spies

（14）February 6-8, 2012: Days in Logic 2012 at the University of évora, Portugal. Aiming to bring together mathematicians, computer scientists and other scientists from Portugal and elsewhere with an interest in Logic. Specially directed to graduate students. And in 2012 specially dedicated to Alan Turing's life and scientific achievements, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Contact: Sandra Alves

（15）February 7, 2012: Oxford University LGBT lecture given by Andre Hodges, on Alan Turing: the One who became a Zero. 5:30pm, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW. Further info: Oxford University Equality and Diversity Unit

（16）February 17, 2012, 5:30pm: Special Lecture by Dr. John Prager from IBM Watson Research Center in Hawthorn NY (U.S.A.) on IBM Watson from Jeopardy! to Healthcare - Could a quiz-show winning computer advise your doctor?, in the Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, England. Dr. Prager's lecture is part of the celebrations of the centenary of Alan Turing (1912-1954) and is sponsored by the programme Public Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (PUAI) of the AISB. Contact: Benedikt Loewe

（17）February 17-26, 2012: Intuition and Ingenuity: An Art Exhibition in Celebration of the Life of Alan Turing at Lighthouse as part of Brighton Science Festival. Preview Evening: Thursday 16th February 7-9pm. "Intuition and Ingenuity" will will tour throughout 2012, hosted by various venues, including Kinetica Art Fair, Thursday 9th - Sunday 12th February 2012. Contact: Anna Dumitriu

（18）February 18-19, 2012: Turing In Context at King's College, Cambridge. A primarily student event, associated with the Newton Insitute programme, putting Turing's work on the computer in the context of work of many others. iC@Kings is organized as part of the Alan Turing Year 2012 and sponsored by the King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the Isaac Newton Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). Organisers: Liesbeth De Mol, Giuseppe Primiero, Ken Moody and Benedikt L?we

（19）February 21-29, 2012: IET and BCS Turing Lecture 2012, in locations:
Tuesday 21 February IET London: Savoy Place, Lecture Theatre;
Thursday 23 February Cardiff University, Pool Room, Law Building;
Tuesday 28 February Manchester University, Lecture Theatre, University Place; and
Wednesday 29 February Edinburgh University, Lecture Theatre, Appleton Tower
Prof. Ray Dolan FRS, who received the 2007 Max Planck Award for his work in neuromodulation and behaviour, is the 2012 IET/BCS Turing Lecturer. Prof. Dolan will draw some interesting links between Turing's original ideas and the cutting edge work going on today in cognition and neuroimaging. Hear how Turing's strongly Bayesian problem solving approaches have advanced developments in understanding the workings of the brain and the human mind. Contact: Jim Norton

（20）February 27, 2012: The Legacy of a Genius: Alan Turing, the Father of Artificial Intelligence: An International Workshop hosted by UAEU. Invited speakers will discuss how Turing's ground-breaking contributions to different fields of the natural sciences will affect current and future developments of mathematical logic, theories of computability, robotics, morphogenesis, and cognitivist approaches to mental functions. Download a flyer. Contact: Ignacio Licata

（21）February 28, 2012, 5:30pm: Launch of Special Issue of Artlink Magazine dedicated to Alan Turing, and the opening of a linked exhibition Art, Pattern and Complexity. At the Royal Institution of Australia (RIAus) and a part of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Fringe. The exhibition runs from 29 February to 16 May 2012, 10am - 5pm, Monday to Friday, and later during RiAus events. Contact: Paul Brown

（22）March 7, 2012: Sixth conference of the Stichting Nationaal Informatica Congres (SNiC) on Turing's Legacy in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht (next to the central train station). The general theme of the conference is the ideas of Alan Turing and their modern day applications. Contact: info [at] turingslegacy.nl

（23）March 7 - May 26, 2012: Turing and His Times - Three of the world's top computing museums collaborating by hosting three events with live Twitter feeds and recorded webcasts to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing.
March 7: George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral, at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View, California in the USA
April 26: Emeritus Professor Simon Lavington, author of Turing and his Contemporaries, at the National Museum of Computing located at Bletchley Park in the UK
May 26: Horst Zuse, son of computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Paderborn in Germany
Contact: Stephen Fleming

（24）March 14-16, 2012: Workshop on Pattern Formation: The inspiration of Alan Turing at St. John's College, Oxford - a Satellite Meeting of the Newton Institute programme Semantics and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing. Contact: Philip Maini

（25）March 17-18, 2012: Special Session on Computable Mathematics (in honor of Alan Turing) as part of the American Mathematical Society, 2012 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Organisers: Douglas Cenzer, Valentina Harizanov and Russell Miller

（26）March 18, 2012: Turing Trail Relay 2012, following riverside paths along both banks of the Cam and Gt Ouse between Ely and Cambridge, recorded as having been used by Alan Turing for marathon training. This is a private Ely Runners club event, joined by a limited number of Alan Turing Year/Newton Institute programme participant teams. Start (9am) and Finish: Ely Cathedral.
Stage 1: Ely-Waterbeach (11.7m) mostly off-road
Stage 2: Waterbeach - Cambridge (Green Dragon Bridge) - Waterbeach (8m) - mainly firm footpaths/roads
Stage 3: Waterbeach - Ely (12.1m) mixture off-road and tarmac footpaths Winning team to be presented with (and team name engraved on) the perpetual Turing Trail Relay cup. Contact: Ely Runners. Enquiries to Barry Cooper about joining/organising an invited ATY team

（27）March 24 - November 18, 2012: Manchester Museum exhibition: Alan Turing and Life's Enigma at the University of Manchester. Inspired by 1950s design, this exhibition documents Alan Turing's investigation into one of the great mysteries of nature: how complex shapes and patterns arise from simple balls of cells. Contact: Henry Mcghie (Head of Collections and Curator of Zoology)

（28）March 24 - July 22, 2012: Cryptograph: An Exhibition in Honor of Alan Turing, at the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. The exhibition draws from the Spencer's permanent collections seeking works that resonate with the kinds of questions that drove Turing's research: finding meaning in patterns, and finding connections between mathematics and computing, intelligence and natural form. Contact: Stephen Goddard

（29）March 26-30, 2012: Workshop on Logical Approaches to Barriers in Computing and Complexity II, part of the Newton Institute programme Semantics and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing, in Cambridge. Contact: Arnold Beckmann

（30）March 26-30, 2012: Turing 2012: The Life and Works of Alan Turing - a week-long event hosted by the Department of Philosophy at De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines. Features a two-day conference on Turing's influence in today's society, focusing on his significant contributions in the areas of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science. Contact: Robert Boyles

（31）March 29, 2012: Talk on Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. And on October 27, Barry Cooper will talk on Turing's legacy. Contact: Bob Bingham

（32）April 2-5, 2012: 28th British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS 2012), University of Manchester. Part of the Alan Turing Year, and collocated with the Automated Reasoning Workshop (ARW). The scope of the colloquium includes all aspects of theoretical computer science, with both computer scientists and mathematicians welcome. Speakers include: Rod Downey (Wellington), Mike Edmunds (Cardiff), Reiner Haehnle (Darmstadt) and Nicole Schweikardt (Frankfurt). Contact: Ian Pratt-Hartmann

（33）April 4, 2012: A Turing Centennial Conference, as part of the Turing Year in Israel programme of events. At Wohl Conference Center adjacent to Bar Ilan. Held under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences, with support from Google, iCore. Speakers: Turing laureates Michael Rabin and Joseph Sifakis, Google VP Alfred Spector, Corinna Cortes, and Jacob Ziv, Micha Sharir, David Harel, and Shimon Ullman. Tentative schedule. Contact: Nachum Dershowitz

（34）April 10-13, 2012: Workshop on "Formal and Computational Cryptographic Proofs", part of the Newton Institute programme Semantics and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing, in Cambridge. Contact: Nigel Smart

（35）April 15-19, 2012: EuroCrypt 2012, the top conference in Europe on Cryptography, flagship conference of the IACR, to be held at the University of Cambridge. General Chair: Nigel Smart

（36）April 15-May 19, 2012: Oslo Turing Centenary Film Series, University of Oslo. Contact: Cristian Prisacariu

（37）April 16-19, 2012: 2012 British Mathematical Colloquium, University of Kent. Turing's biographer, Andrew Hodges (Wadham College, Oxford), and Robert I. Soare (Chicago) - speaking on Mathematics and the Turing Renaissance - are confirmed invited speakers. There will be also a mini-workshop on Turing's Legacy in Mathematics and Computer Science, organized by Simon Thompson (Kent School of Computing). Contact: Peter Fleischmann

（38）April 16-19, 2012: Workshop on Proof Theory and Modal Logic - First International Wormshop in Barcelona. The main idea behind the themes at the workshop are Recursive Feferman-Turing Progressions of Formal Theories (Iterating Consistency). Contact: Joost J. Joosten

（39）April 16-20, 2012: Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics (LATIN 2012), in the campus of the Universidad Católica San Pablo, in Arequipa, Peru. The LATIN conference is pleased to join the celebrations in honour of the Alan Turing Centenary of his birth. At LATIN 2012, plenary talks by Martin Davis and Scott Aaronson will form the core of the celebration. See poster. Contact: David Fernández-Baca

（40）April 18, 2012: Machines, Algorithms and Computer Science in the Centenary Celebrations of Alan Turing, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. Hosted by the Dipartimento di Filosofia Letteratura Storia e Scienze Sociali-Fless, invited speakers include Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Gabriele Lolli, Guglielmo Tamburrini, Roberto Cordeschi, Luigi Borzacchini, Giovanni Pani, Anna Maria Fanelli, Mauro Di Giandomenico and Carla Petrocelli. Contact: Carla Petrocelli or Chiara Porcelluzzi

（41）April 26, 2012: Pioneers of Computer Science: From Turing to Harel, at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The day before David Harel receives an honorary doctorate, TU/e will host this symposium in his honour. Besides a keynote talk from Harel, there will be invited talks by Prof. Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden University), Prof. Jan Friso Groote (TU/e), and Prof. Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University). The title of Harel's keynote is "Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person's Experience of Turing's Impact". Contact: Wil van der Aalst

（42）April 26 - May 17, 2012: Gibbons Memorial Lecture Series 2012, Auckland, New Zealand. The 2012 lectures all concern Turing's accomplishments and his legacy for Computer Science.
? April 26: Cristian Calude on Alan Turing and the Unsolvable Problem: To Halt or Not to Halt - That is the Question
? May 3: Jack Copeland on Alan Turing and the Secret Cyphers: Breaking the German Codes at Bletchley Park
? May 10: Brian Carpenter on Alan Turing and the Computing Engine: Turing's achievements in practical computing
? May 17: Ian Watson on Alan Turing and the Artificial Brain: The Development of Artificial Intelligence.
Details of lectures. Contact: Bob Doran

（43）May 10-11, 2012: Turing's Century (T100), in Edinburgh, organised by the Edinburgh University School of Informatics and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. There will be a public lecture reflecting on Turing's contribution to modern life by Jim Al Khalili on Thursday 10th May. And on Friday 11th May there will be a symposium with four themes and four keynote speakers corresponding to areas where Turing made a major contribution:
? Algorithms - David Harel, Weizmann Institute
? AI - Barbara Grosz, Harvard University
? Morphogenesis - Philip Maini, Oxford University
? Computer Hardware/characterisations of the brain - Steve Furber, Manchester University
Also planned (provisionally) is a schools activity, with a competition and a prize giving at the public lecture. Contact: Jane Hillston

（44）May 10-12, 2012: Princeton Turing Centennial Celebration, Princeton University. From the organisers: As currently envisioned, the purpose of this event is both to take the opportunity to celebrate our institution's role in the evolution of computer science and to tell to the world the full story of Turing's time at Princeton. Attendees will fully come to appreciate that Turing was as important as Einstein for 20th century science, that his impact on society today was far greater, and that Princeton has a proud stake in his ownership, at least his PhD. See Jon Edwards' presentation on Computing at Princeton. An excellent list of speakers. In April and May in its lobby, the University's Firestone Library will host an exhibition on early computing at Princeton. Turing's Princeton dissertation and graduate file will be on display, as well as material selected from The Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center at the Institute for Advanced Study. Contacts: Robert Sedgewick and Jon Edwards.

（45）May 12-13, 2012: Workshop on Philosophy and Computation at the University of Lund. An event inspired by the Turing Centenary celebration. One week before the workshop an inter-universitary advanced course in formal philosophy, also entitled "Philosophy and Computation" will be offered at LU with lecturer Paula Quinon. At least one 4 hours session will be devoted to Turing and his achievements. Call for papers deadline: February 17th, 2012. Contact: Paula Quinon

（46）May 15, 2012: Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence 2012, at Bletchley Park. From the organisers: We will be webcasting the entire competition live, with the web site www.chatbots.org as the principal hosting site, as well as simulateous coverage on Facebook and Twitter. More details from Hugh Loebner. Contact: David Levy

（47）May 16-21, 2012: Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC 2012), at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. This will be part of the 2012 Turing Year in China, including The Turing Lectures featuring a number of Turing Award winners and the publication of a special Turing Centenary book. Speakers confirmed so far: S Barry Cooper (Leeds), John Hopcroft (Cornell), Richard Karp (Berkeley), Jon Kleinberg (Cornell), Butler Lampson (Microsoft), Wei Li (BUAA, Beijing) and Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Tsinghua, Beijing). Contact: Angsheng Li

（48）May 30 - June 1, 2012: 1st Annual Conference on Complexity and Human Experience - Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Conference dedicated to the work of Alan Turing (1912-1954) as part of the 2012 Alan Turing Year. Will examine "computing applications and complexity in the humanities and social sciences that allow us to discover, create and make connections in ways that would not be possible were it not for Turing's seminal work." Contact: Anthony Beavers

（49）June 2012 onwards: An Olympian Mind - Alan Turing and the Dawn of Digital Computing, 1936-1954 (provisional title): The Computer Conservation Society is working with the Science Museum on this ambitious projected exhibition at the Science Museum, South Kensington, lasting a number of months and spanning the 23rd June 2012 Turing birthdate anniversary. Supported by Google. For more details, see the Science Museum press release. Contact: Tilly Blyth or Simon Lavington

（50）June 1-2: The 5th Over the Air, at Bletchley Park: "36 Hours of Mobile Development" ... "Bolstered by enthusiastic cheers of approval, we'll once again be holding the event at Bletchley Park, launching the Alan Turing Centenary year celebrations in style..." Contact: Margaret Gold

（51）June 5-27, 2012: University of Tennessee COSC 482 (Theory of Computation), will relocate to the UK in 2012 - and "will give students a unique opportunity to study and experience the life and scientific contrubutions of Alan Turing". Organiser: Prof. Mike Berry

（52）June 6-9, 2012: 28th Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics, MFPS 2012, University of Bath Bath, UK. Includes a special session on Computability on continuous data devoted to the legacy of Alan Turing. Deadline for submissions: March 5, 2012. Contact: Ulrich Berger (PC Chair)

（53）June 11-13, 2012: International Mathematica Symposium 2012 (IMS2012), University College London. Will include an afternoon Alan Turing Centenary Session on the Monday 11th June, devoted to Turing's life and work, with Guest Speaker: Dr Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: The Enigma. Contact: Prof. William T. Shaw (Conference Director)

（54）June 12, 2012: Lecture by Andrew Hodges on Alan Turing's Life and Work, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester. Contact: Helen Harper

（55）June 12-15, 2012: Workshop on THE INCOMPUTABLE, focusing on the mathematical theory of incomputability, and its relevance for the real world. Held as part of the Newton Institute programme Semantics and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing, to be held at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Chicheley Hall.
THE INCOMPUTABLE, generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation, promises to be a historic event, bringing the mathematical theory of incomputability centre-stage once again. Attendance is limited to 110 participants - up to 60 housed on-site - so early booking is advised. Contacts: Barry Cooper, Mariya Soskova.

（56）June 14, 2012: Software Craftsmanship 2012 returns to its spiritual home at Bletchley Park for a 3rd year for the Turing Centenary. The definitive international conference for the practicing software craftsman, SC2012 will bring together 250 passionate programmers to share ideas, practice their techniques and learn from each other.
In aid of Bletchley Park, SC2012 will this year be celebrating the life and work of computing pioneer and codebreaker, Alan Turing, with a theme of "Computer Science for Software Craftsmen". Participants will be encouraged to create and share coding exercises that explain data structures and algorithms while reinforcing good coding practices. The best exercises will be collected into a book aimed at self-taught programmers and computer science students alike. Organiser: Jason Gorman

（57）June 15-16, 2012: The programme of the ACM A. M. Turing Centenary Celebration in San Francisco centres on the ACM A.M. Turing Award winners, 32 of whom will attend and participate in the Celebration. The Technical Programme will include moderated panels and invited talks from select speakers and focus on Alan Turing's contributions, as well as the history, and the future of computing.
By bringing together so many ACM A.M. Turing Award winners to reflect on Alan Turing's contribution and share their views on the past and future of computing, the ACM A.M. Turing Centenary Celebration will engage researchers, academics, students, and the public in a conversation about the importance and direction of computer science and its discipline.
Registration, which includes a Friday Reception for ACM A.M. Turing Award and other ACM Award winners, ACM leaders, and all registered attendees of the Centenary Celebration, is limited to 700 attendees with at least 100 spots reserved for students. Contact: ACM CEO John White

（58）June 15-16, 2012: The ACE 2012 conference at King's College Cambridge, co-located with CiE 2012. ACE 2012 will celebrate Turing's contributions to the theory and practice of computing. The predecessor of ACE 2012, ACE 2000, was held at the London Science Museum and the National Physical Laboratory in May 2000 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the pilot model of Turing's Automatic Computing Engine. Contacts: Jack Copeland, Mark Sprevak

（59）June 17, 2012: The 8th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Model, DCM 2012 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, a satellite meeting of CiE 2012. The aim of this series of workshops is to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computational models or new features for traditional computational models, in order to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. Contacts: Benedikt L?we, Glynn Winskel (Programme Committee Co-chairs)

（60）June 18-23, 2012: TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE: CiE 2012 - How the World Computes, University of Cambridge. CiE 2012 will celebrate Turing's unique impact on mathematics, computing, computer science, informatics, morphogenesis, 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.
The conference will conclude on the June 23 anniversary of Turing's birth with a King's College celebration, with King's alumnus Professor Leslie Valiant, the 2010 Turing Award recipient, speaking at the morning session - and the afternoon given over to social occasion for King's College members and CiE 2012 participants.
This Turing Centenary Conference is sponsored by Microsoft Research, the Association for Symbolic Logic, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, the European Association for Computer Science Logic, IFCoLog and the University of Cambridge.
DEADLINE for paper submissions: January 20, 2012 - for details see the First Call for Papers. Contacts: Anuj Dawar and Barry Cooper

（61）June 22-25, 2012: TURING 100 - TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE at Manchester University and the Manchester City Hall. With Honorary Chairs Rodney Brooks and Sir Roger Penrose, and featuring lectures by sixteen major figures including Vint Cerf, Ed Clarke, Tony Hoare, Yuri Matiyasevich, Michael Rabin and Garry Kasparov.
Organised in cooperation with the University of Manchester and Manchester City Council.
Supported by the Kurt G?del Society, and funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
Will include presentation of the awards to the winners of the JTF Turing Centenary Research Fellowship and Scholar Competition.
DEADLINE for submitting an application for a grant (￡45,000 for Turing Scholars, ￡75,000 for Turing Fellows) is December 16, 2011.
Click HERE for instructions on how to apply.
Contacts: Andrei Voronkov (Chair, Organising Committee), Matthias Baaz (Vice President, Kurt G?del Society), and S Barry Cooper (Chair, Turing Fellowship Competition)

（62）June 22 - December, 2012: As part of the Brazilian Alan Turing Year: A Special Lecture Series celebrating the Alan Turing Year, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. Distinguished speakers from Brazil, the UK and the USA will contribute a cycle of invited talks for both academic and general audiences, focusing on different aspects of Computer Science and legacies from Alan Turing's work. The first lecture on June 22 will be given by Prof. Luis Lamb, on Alan Mathison Turing and the Turing Award Winners: A short journey through the history of Computer Science.
Other activities include: A Code Breaker Contest (organiser: Prof. Fernando Weber); Legacy for Computing and Humanity - Exhibition at the UFRGS's Museum; and a Videos Contest to enhance Science and Technology amongst students under 18 years old. Contacts: Marcelo Walter (Lecture Series) and Dante Barone (General Organiser)

（63）June 23, 2012: TURING100 TURING TESTS will stage a Turing Test contest at Bletchley Park, the place where Alan Turing broke codes during the second world war, on the centenary of his birth, Saturday 23rd June, 2012. Special Turing centenary competition for members of the public attempting to determine machine from human, and male from female. Contacts: Huma Shah and Kevin Warwick, Email: turing100atBletchleyPark[at]gmail[dot]com

（64）June 23, 2012: A Turing Centenary Symposium, as part of the fifth North American Summer School of Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI 2012) , hosted at the University of Texas at Austin, June 18-22, 2012. The Symposium is hosting a variety of speakers to talk about the man Turing was and present contributions to the fields in which Turing was influential. Contact: Valeria de Paiva

（65）June 23-24, 2012: TURING'S WORLDS, at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford - Turing centenary related BSHM/OUDCE Annual Residential Meeting, organised by the British Society for the History of Mathematics and the Oxford University Dept of Continuing Education. The weekend attempts a rounded view of a polymath, one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century, his life and his times. See the webpage for programme and list of distinguished speakers. Contact: Martin Campbell-Kelly

（66）June 24-27, 2012: Ninth International Conference on Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2012), in Cambridge, UK, co-located with CiE 2012. Contacts: Klaus Weihrauch (Programme Cttee Chair, for submissions), Arno Pauly (Organising Cttee Chair, for local information).

（67）June 25-28, 2012: Twenty-Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2012) at the University of Dubrovnik in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Will include a special session/keynote speaker commemorating Alan Turing's unique contribution to logic and computer science. Deadlines: Titles and Short Abstracts - January 6, 2012; Extended Abstracts - January 13, 2012. Contact: Nachum Dershowitz (Programme Chair)

（68）June 26-28, 2012: IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity 2012 (CCC'12), in Porto, Portugal - organised in association with the 2012 Alan Turing Year. Contacts: Luís Antunes (Local Chair), Peter Bro Miltersen (Steering Cttee Chair).

（69）June 26 - July 1, 2012: IJCAR 2012 - The 6th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, in Manchester. IJCAR forms a key part of the Alan Turing Year 2012, and follows immediately after the Turing Centenary conference Celebrating Turing - Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics. Satellite events June 30-July 1. Contacts: Konstantin Korovin, Andrei Voronkov.

（70）June 30, 2012: The Turing Education Day (TED) at Bletchley Park, incorporating the Alan Turing Memorial Lecture 2012. A team of first-rate expositors will explain the key aspects of Turing's many-sided work to a general audience. Topics covered will include codebreaking; the birth and early development of the computer and computer programming; artificial intelligence; artificial life; and the foundations and philosophy of mathematics. Contact: Jack Copeland

（71）June 29 - July 11, 2012: Summer School in Cognitive Sciences 2012 - Evolution and Function of Consciousness, in Montreal, Canada. Commemorating the Centenary of the birth of Alan Turing (June 23 2012), with the theme: The causal role of consciousness in brain and behavioral evolution and function. Contact: Stevan Harnad

（72）July 1, 2012 - January 4, 2013: An exhibition ALAN TURING - LEGACY FOR COMPUTING AND HUMANITY, at the Museum of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. Aims to present Alan Turing's major contributions to Computer Science and to civilization, through interactive installations which will highlight his main achievements to Science and to Society. Supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and the British General network in Brazil. Contact: Dante Barone

（73）July 2-6, 2012: 7th Conference on Computability, Complexity and Randomness (CCR 2012), and Workshop on Randomness, part of the Newton Institute programme Semantics and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing, in Cambridge. Submission deadline for abstracts: February 25, 2012. Contacts: Elvira Mayordomo and Wolfgang Merkle

（74）July 2-6, 2012: JOINT 2012 International Association for Computing and Philosophy World Congress (IACAP 2012) and Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Annual Convention (AISB 2012), University of Birmingham. Contacts: John Barnden, Anthony Beavers, Manfred Kerber

（75）July 3-5, 2012: ITiCSE 2012 - 17th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education , at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. ITiCSE 2012 is among the official Centenary events of the Alan Turing Year. All three Keynotes of ITiCSE 2012 will be in conjunction with the Turing Centenary:
Michael Rabin, a Turing Award winner, will talk on Never too early to begin: Computer Sacience for school students.
Lenore Blum will talk on Alan Turing and the other theory of Computing.
David Harel will talk on Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person's Experience of Turing's Impact.
Download poster. Contacts: Tami Lapidot, Judith Gal-Ezer (Conference Chairs)

（76）July 3-7, 2012: The 7th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR 2012), at the University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN). This Alan Turing Year event will include a special Turing lecture given by Yuri Matiyasevich. Deadline for submissions: December 11, 2011. Contact: Juhani Karhum?ki

（77）July 9-13, 2012: 39th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2012), the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), University of Warwick. Deadline for submissions: February 21, 2012. Contact: Artur Czumaj (Conference Chair)

（78）July 12-18, 2012: Logic Colloquium 2012 and annual meeting of the British Logic Colloquium, at the University of Manchester. The Logic Colloquium is the European meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic. The programme will include a number of talks/special sessions related to the Turing legacy in logic and applications, and the Turing Lecture given by Professor Angus MacIntyre. Contact: Paola D'Aquino (Chair, Programme Committee) or Alex Wilkie (Chair, Organising Committee)

（79）July 13, 2012: Animation12 Festival and Inspirational Computer Science Day at Manchester, University of Manchester. To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing Computing At School (CAS) is running a Codebreaker themed competition in association with Animation12. Contact: Toby Howard

（80）July 16-20, 2012: 6th International School on Rewriting, Valencia, Spain. The School will contribute to the Alan Turing year by including some specific courses which connect the theory of term rewriting with some central notions like computability, termination, lambda calculus, etc. where Turing made important contributions. Lecturers include Andrei Voronkov, and courses on Tree Automata, Turing Machines and Term Rewriting (by Sophie Tison, Lille), Lambda Calculus: extensions and applications (by Pierre Lescanne, ENS Lyon), Termination of Rewriting: Foundations and Automation (by Albert Rubio, T.U. of Catalonia). Contact: Salvador Lucas

（81）July 17-20, 2012: 17th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA), Porto, Portugal. "This year edition of the conference is dedicated to Alan Turing on the occasion of the Centenary Celebration of his life and work." Contact: Nelma Moreira, Rogério Reis

（82）July 22-26, 2012: The Inaugural AAAI Turing Lecture, to be given by Christos Papadimitriou, C. Lester Hogan Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, during the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Sheraton Centre Toronto. Contact: Toby Walsh (Turing Track organiser)

（83）August 6-10, 2012: Logic and Computability at CLAM 2012, at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. CLAM 2012 is the 4th Latin American Congress of Mathematicians. "This session of CLAM 2012 has been included as part of the celebrations of the Alan Turing Year 2012, the centenary of the life and Work of Alan Turing." Contact: Verónica Becher

（84）August 6-17, 2012: 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2012), Opole, Poland. As part of the activities of the Alan Turing Year, the ESF network INFTY: New Frontiers of Infinity is sponsoring a foundational course Models of Computation, taught by Robert Lubarsky (Florida Atlantic University), and an introductory course Circularity by Larry Moss (Indiana University). The network also offers two student stipends for students interested in attending these courses. Contact: Benedikt L?we

（85）August 28-31, 2012: Physics and Computation 2012 at the University of Swansea, UK. The workshop is an interdisciplinary meeting on the frontiers of Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering and Biology. The programme will consist of invited talks and contributed talks, and one or two keynote public lectures. The workshop is the fifth in a series, the previous ones being held in Vienna (2008), the Azores, Egypt and Finland (2011). Contact: Jens Blanck

（86）August 28-31, 2012: The 13th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC13) in Budapest, Hungary. Included will be a Special Session: Turing Computability and Membrane Computing as an Unconventional Computing Paradigm, with invited speakers and a selection of submitted papers dealing with relationships between Turing's work and membrane computing. Contacts: Marian Gheorghe (CMC Steering Cttee Chair), Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (CMC13 Co-chair)

（87）September 3-7, 2012: Unconventional Computation and Natural Computing (UCNC 2012) (previously Unconventional Computation), in Orléans. There will be a special Alan Turing Year talk given by Gilles Dowek relating to Turing's work on morphogenesis. Contacts: Jér?me Durand-Lose (PC Co-chair), Florent Becker (Local OC Chair)

（88）September 3-6, 2012: Computer Science Logic (CSL 2012) - The 21st EACSL Annual Conferences on Computer Science Logic will be held in the main building of the IUT Fontainebleau of UPEC Université. Contact: Arnaud Durand

（89）September 3-6, 2012: 19th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2012), University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact: Ruy de Queiroz

（90）September 4-7, 2012: 23rd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2012), Newcastle upon Tyne. Deadlines: April 4 (for abstracts), April 11 (for paper submission). Satellite workshops: 3 & 8 September 2012. Contact: Irek Ulidowski

（91）September 5-7, 2012: Challenging Turing 2012, Stanford University. An academic event in the spirit of Turing's inquiry, aiming to clarify contemporary interpretations of Turing's work, and to make further progress. From the organisers: "Continuing his inquiry and encouraging further progress is a unique way for Stanford University and the Silicon Valley community to recognize and honor Alan Turing's contributions ... We will give preference to papers that reflect the standards of Alan Turing's inquiry and move the inquiry forward." Submission deadline: May 1st, 2012. Contact: Steven Ericsson-Zenith at stevene @ stanford.edu

（92）September 9, 2012: Teams from universities and institutions with a link to the Alan Turing Year are encouraged to enter the 2012 Grunty Fen Half Marathon, organised by the Ely Runners, who will present two team trophies engraved respectively:
Grunty Fen Half Marathon
Alan Turing Centenary 2012
1st Male Team/1st Female Team
Contact: Ely Runners, and watch the race webpage for entry details

（93）September 13-15, 2012: Colloquium Logicum 2012, at Heinz-Nixdorf-Museumsforum, Paderborn. Part of the Alan Turing Jahr 2012. Contact: Benedikt L?we

（94）September 17-21, 2012: Informatik 2012, at Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Technische Universit?t Braunschweig. Part of the Alan Turing Jahr 2012. Contact: Wolfgang Thomas

（95）September 19-25, 2012: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems - ISCS 2012, at Kypriotis Hotels and Conference Center, Kos Island, Greece. This year, the Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems is also part of the Alan Turing Year. Contacts: Ali Sanayei, Hector Zenil

（96）October 10-12, 2012: Turing in Context II, sponsored by and organized at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts Brussels, Belgium. The workshop aims at gaining a better and deeper understanding of Turing's work and legacy by bringing together historians, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who work on topics that are relevant to one of the many fields Turing has contributed to. Contact: Giuseppe Primiero

（97）October 26-27, 2012: Turing under Discussion - 2012 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science SSLPS, at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Confirmed speakers: Barry Cooper, Jack Copeland, Martin Davis, Juraj Hromkovic, Ueli Maurer, Stewart Shapiro, Christof Teuscher, Wolfgang Thomas. Contacts: Giovanni Sommaruga (Chair organizing committee), Thomas Strahm (President SSLPS)

（98）November 1, 2012: A one-day workshop organised by and at the Alan Turing Institute Almere, The Netherlands. Keynote speaker: Michael Wooldridge. Contact: John-Jules Meyer (Chief Scientific Officer of the Alan Turing Institute Almere)

（99）November 15, 2012: LGBT History Month 2013 Pre-Launch Meeting, to be held at Bletchley Park as a tribute to Alan Turing on the centenary of his birth. LGBT History Month in February 2013 will be focused on Maths, science and technology. The pre-launch meeting will deal with maths, ICT and science in the school curriculum. From the organisers: "It is vital that our children understand the contribution Alan Turing made to our nation, to technology and mathematics and the legacy he gave to the world. It is equally vital that they know how the state treated him before and after they realised he was gay." The November launch will include daytime activities for schoolchildren, workshops and ideas for stakeholders in LGBT History Month and an evening with keynote speakers. Contact: Tony Fenwick

（100）December 4-7, 2012: World Intelligence Congress in Macau, China. As a special event for the Alan Turing Year, the congress includes five intelligent informatics related conferences - IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2012 (WI'12), IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2012 (IAT'12), Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT'12), Brain Informatics 2012 (BI'12) and Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2012 (ISMIS'12). Contact: Qin (Christine) Lv

 

[ATY/TCAC] Update on general interest items,? 13th March, 2012
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A real spread of topics this time - films, running, exhibitions, arts, schools, and a little bit of politics ... let's start with a little news about films - firstly, from Patrick Sammon:

1) Here's an update on the international version of Patrick's Turing film that everyone is eagerly awaiting.  "Britain's Greatest Codebreaker" was broadcast in late November in the UK, attracting nearly 1.5 million viewers.  Executive Producer Patrick tells us the version of the film that will be distributed around the world is called "Codebreaker."  Additional money is still being lined up to fund the drama-documentary's international distribution.  Within a couple months, news is expected about television broadcast plans in several countries, with more broadcast networks getting on board later in the year.  Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, screening inquiries and other questions can be sent to Patrick at ps@turingfilm.com.  You can check out a NEW two-minute trailer for "Codebreaker" here: http://www.turingfilm.com

2) On the other hand, there is a real gem of a short film featuring Tom Vickers who knew Turing and worked on the Pilot ACE at the National Physical Laboratory. Almost single-handedly put together by Tom's granddaughter Harriet Vickers, it has now appeared, and is a super little window on the history of the computer - see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cEQ6cnwaY_s

with background at the NPL website:
http://www.npl.co.uk/turing/

3) Down in Cambridge, people will be doing the "Turing Trail Relay" on Sunday, following the riverside paths that Alan Turing followed during his running days. As an ATY subscriber, you are specially invited! Anyone fancies a run of around 8 miles on Sunday morning, write to me at:
pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk and I will fix you up with an appropriate team of 3 to be part of.

The 2012 Turing Trail Relay is an Ely Runners members only run this year, but Turing followers are invited as guests. If you already have a whole team of 3, you can contact directly Matt Holmes (matt@elyrunners.co.uk), the event organiser. We are looking forward to your replies!

4) Another timely reminder - if you are in the Manchester area on Monday
26 March, on no account miss a rare opportunity to hear Professor Bernard Richards, ex-student of Turing, talking about "Alan Turing: His Theory of Morphogenesis demonstrated in Radiolaria" at 7pm at the Royal Northern College of Music. For details see the 'Manchester Lit and Phil'
webpage for March: http://www.manlitphil.co.uk/11.html
All are welcome, and there is no charge.

5) From The Manchester Museum & Whitworth Art Gallery comes a special invitation to ATY list subscribers. Nick Merriman, Director of The Manchester Museum, invites you to celebrate the opening of the exhibition:

Alan Turing and Life's Enigma, Friday 23 March 2012, 5.30-7.30pm

Speeches 6pm, Refreshments - RSVP corinne.leader@manchester.ac.uk You are welcome to bring a guest – please let them know when you RSVP www.manchester.ac.uk/museum

Also in Manchester is the Manchester Science Festival, and the mass Turing Sunflower experiment that will feed into the October festival has a
coordinator:
http://manchestersciencefestival.blogspot.com/2012/03/turings-sunflowers.html

6) Now the politics: On Friday 2nd March, Lord Peter Sharkey joined South Manchester MP John Leech in a meeting with representatives of Manchester University and members of the Turing Centenary Committee to talk about the campaign for a Pardon for Alan Turing. It was a rather strange meeting.
The interesting thing is that Lord Sharkey was taught by Turing's ex-student Professor Robin Gandy while at Manchester University. Meanwhile the ePetition for a full pardon for Alan Turing has reached 31,725

7) From Terry Mitchell at Bletchley Park Post Office, news of the success of the Turing stamp first-day covers - and a short film, with Terry himself talking about the history of the BP Post Office, and those super 1st day covers:
http://www.buckstv.co.uk/buckstv/your_town_your_village/bletchley/bletchley_park_first_day_cover_stamps.html

8) And, should have remembered it before now - there was huge media attention to the opening of the new Alan Turing exhibition at Bletchley Park, with masses of familiar faces - with Dermot Turing as usual the star
turn: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-17262062

though James May affably did his best to sound relevant. One of the best reports was in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/06/alan-turing-exhibition-enigma-codebreaker
And here's a film:
http://www.buckstv.co.uk/buckstv/your_town_your_village/bletchley/new_alan_turing_exhibition.html

The exhibition itself is going to be a huge hit, all credit to Kelsey and the other Bletchley Park staff and volunteers for collectively bringing together such an interesting and important collection!

9) A particularly interesting element of the opening was the unveiling of Turing's Delilah Secure Speech system, rebuilt by John Harper and friends from a surviving report, with a little help from GCHQ - see John Graham-Cumming's report:
http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/delilah-secure-speech-system.html
complete with some fascination photographs. Of course, all this work does cost money, and John asks:

"Are you able to locate somebody or an organisation that would help with our funding problem?
If so I and other members of our team would be very grateful."

10) While we're on Bletchley Park and exhibitions, should mention the innovative cooperation between 3 of the world's top computer museums, with a theme "Turing and his times – computing museums honour computer pioneers" - see: http://www.tnmoc.org/36/section.aspx/234

The museums will each host an event. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park, England, and the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, Germany – will discuss the contribution of Turing and his contemporaries and the public will be invited to pose questions in advance and follow the events through a live Twitter feed.

The TNMOC event will be on April 26th. Be there!

11) More news of the ATY in Israel: The Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem is currently working in the development of an exhibition on Turing.

The action was initiated by a coalition of scientists from various universities in collaboration with the Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem.

The exhibition  will be launched with a wide range of activities relating to the life of Alan Turing as well as to the Computer Science as a discipline.

Planned exhibits will be inspired by Turing's legacy and his visionary work in the 30’s and 40’s – whether in Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography or Computability theory.

12) Anyone who has visited the ATY webpage lately:
http://www.turingcentenary.eu/
will have noticed a small banner inserted for Julian Wagstaff's one-hour opera "The Turing Test" - and click on it, and you will see a beautiful webpage describing the opera and the plans to tour it during the 2012 centenary. Of course, it's the old story - really creative work usually has to struggle for funding. Julian has done wonders, but still needs some philanthropic benefactor to help make this tour happen.

13) Lots of artistic activity:

 (a) Prof Bob Soare from Chicago has been getting a lot of attention for his drawing of parallels between Turing and famous artistic figures - see "Computer scientist sees artistic side to father of computer":

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/02/23/computer-scientist-sees-artistic-side-father-computer

 (b) Then there is Alan Dun's interesting sculpture of Turing:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/AlanDun_Turing_01.jpg

 (c) And the brilliant "Intuition and Ingenuity" touring art exhibition reaches the wilds of Sheffield (as London-centric southerners like to
think) - actually, Sheffield is one of the UK's great cities, and the exhibition will be transferring? to Lovebytes Festival of Digital Art in Sheffield for 22nd-24th March, see http://2012.lovebytes.org.uk/ where they kindly say:

"At the heart of this year's festival is Intuition and Ingenuity [2012.lovebytes.org.uk], an exhibition celebrating the life and influence of Alan Turing, one of the greatest minds Britain has ever produced. From inventing the digital computer and helping to decode the German Enigma machine to founding the science of artificial intelligence, the world today would have been a very different place without his ideas. Intuition and Ingenuity marks the centenary of Turing's birth, with new works by international digital art pioneers and emerging contemporary artists, including Roman Verostko, Ernest Edmonds, boredomresearch, Patrick Tresset, Anna Dumitriu and Alex May."

 (d) From David Stutz in Seattle - " I am coordinating a concert and art installation in Seattle on 22 June that commemorates the Turing 100th.
Here is the blog post announcing the concert:

http://synthesist.net/music/2012/03/a-seattle-concert-and-installation-in-honor-of-alan-turing/

Thanks for your consideration!"

 (e) While we hear a Turing inspired image wins first place in the Computational Imagery category of the Kroto Scientific Image Competition organized by the University of Sheffield in the UK. The image was generated by Hector Zenil in the course of an investigation of the distribution of halting runtimes of programs in connection to the lengths of mathematical proofs.

This blog post provides more details of how the image was generated and
arranged: http://www.animaexmachina.com [www.animaexmachina.com] The image is being released under an open license in honour of the Turing Year, so that it may  be used for any academic or artistic illustration.

 

14) Stuff for kids (of all ages):

?? (a) In Nijmegen, they are organising a Masterclass Turing for kids:
http://www.ru.nl/studereninnijmegen/opleidingen/bacheloropleidingen/alle-bachelor/faculteit-1/informatica/vm/masterclass-turing/

 (b) Matteo Baldoni from the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligenc tells us they are organizing a workshop and a prize for the best demo on AI topics.

Called "Popularize Artificial Intelligence", they describe a Workshop and Prize for celebrating 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth.

Here is the link  http://www.di.unito.it/~baldoni/PAI-2012/

 (c) And the latest from the remarkable Sevenoaks School is David Vaccaro's report (from March 7):

The Sevenoaks School code break challenge www.codebreakchallenge.co.uk is proving very popular with over 1500 participants and 62 schools signed up.

The standard of some of the Code Breaking has been remarkably high with (what I thought were) very difficult codes being broken.

It is still running for the next 10 days 9and it is not too late to sign up), but at the moment a group of 7 students from Abingdon School, Sevenoaks School and Tonbridge Grammar are tied in the lead.

15) I'm sure there was something I meant to tell you about the ATY in Hong Kong - I'll remember it for next time.

16) Huma Shah tells us that the University of Surrey has got some Olympic funding, and is planning Alan Turing Centenary Celebrations, various venues on campus running up to the 23 June anniversary.

All for now - the acdemic/conferences rundown to come later this week.

But should just mention that there is a whole series of Turing centenary lectures going on at the University of Valencia in Spain, and there is one tomorrow (14 March) - for Spanish readers, here is the information:
http://www.uv.es/cdciencia/
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[ATY/TCAC] Update, May 13, 2012
We hear that the big meetings in Princeton and Edinburgh have been big successes, with lots of people and some fantastic talks. No report from the philosophy and computation meeting in Lund yet. Meanwhile, news coming thick and fast - here are another 10 items to start the week. We start with a few events due in the next few days:

1) On Tuesday we have the celebrated Loebner Prize Competition at Bletchley Park:
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

The best source of information is the Bletchley Park webpage:
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/661305

"The judges at the competition will conduct conversations with the four finalist chatbots and with some human surrogates, and will then rank all their conversation partners from most humanlike to least humanlike. The chatbot with the highest overall ranking wins the prize.

Visitors will be able to follow the conversations on screens in the Mansion and see if they can tell, themselves, whether they are generated by humans or computers. The conversations will also be streamed live to the internet for the first time this year."

2) And on Wednesday the Turing Year in China kicks off with a big computer science conference at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing:
http://turing2012.iscas.ac.cn/index.html

The main Turing ingredient will be 7 Turing Lectures over 16-21 May, including Turing Award inners John Hopcroft, Richard Karp and Andrew Yao.
On Thursday there will be a "China Science Future Star 2012" event with 2 of the Turing Lecturers talking about computer science and Alan Turing to around 300 Beijing high school students.

3) And, from the grandiose to some fascinating computer history for a more select audience of the cognoscenti - namely, the Computer Conservation Society and friends: On Thursday, at the Science Museum in London (2.30pm), Brian Carpenter will talk about "Alan Turing - Computer Design"
- focusing on the ACE and its history:
http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/20120517.htm

4) Lots of serious minded outreach in Hong Kong. All sorts of events in progress or planned. Another instalment on the 23rd May is a "2012 Alan Turing Year in Hong Kong Public Seminar" in Kowloon:
http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20120503/Alan_Turing/

5) The next day, back in Manchester, we have expert Dr James Sumner on the history of computer science talking on "Alan Turing and his work in Manchester". It's 5.45 for 6.15pm, in the meeting rooms at The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, and promises to be a very interesting talk:
http://www.friendsofthejohnrylands.org/events/177/55-Alan-Turing-in-Manchester/

6) Another more academic meeting - this one part of the burgeoning Turing Year in Spain - a 'Conferencia' on the "Legacy of Alan Turing" in
Valencia: http://bit.ly/KU0dAa
More info (for Spanish readers) at: http://anyturing.blogs.upv.es/

7) Now for something quite different. James Turing, great nephew of Alan, would like us to include the following on his charitable foundation, doing excellent work in Africa:

"The Turing Trust is an Edinburgh-based charitable organization established in honour of Alan Turing, which works to fund schooling programs in Ghana.  As we progress into the centenary year, the Turing Trust is hoping to expand its commitment to teaching employable skills and computer literacy in impoverished communities in Ghana.

The trust was set up after James Turing, the great nephew of Alan Turing, volunteered in Ghana, teaching at a vocational training school, Afoako ICCES. Although the fees are only ￡15 per year, many students struggle to earn enough money to pay their fees or indeed feed themselves. Searching for a way to help the school provide a chance for its students to break free from poverty, James needed only to look to his great-uncle for inspiration, Alan Turing, father of computer science, who once said that “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”.One of the central aims of the Turing Trust is to bring the benefits of the IT revolution, inspired by Alan, in a lasting and self-sustaining way to rural communities in Africa.

Some of the many ways by which we commemorate Turing’s achievements include donating computers for use in the classroom, sponsoring students who are otherwise unable to afford an education, and constructing innovative learning spaces such as computer labs.  As a celebration of the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth, we have prepared a ready-to-go pub quiz about Alan Turing and the many ways in which he changed the world. This is meant to provide an entertaining night out for the members of your organization, as well as much-needed contributions towards the Turing Trust’s work. Please contact james@turingtrust.co.uk, or see www.turingtrust.co.uk for further information."

8) One of the most exciting pieces of news is that Hugh Whitemore's great Turing play: "Breaking the Code" is being perfomed in mainland Europe, being taken on a 6-perfomance tour by student actors the University Players. Strangely, we have still not had news of the promised professional stagings in London and New York, which has denied performing rights to amateur performances in the UK and USA. For details of the European tour:
http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/BreakingTheCode/

9) Now here's a really imaginative Turing Year event, at Bletchley Park like so many imaginative ventures. The 2012 Over The Air event at Bletchley Park is due for June 1-2. And the Call for Speakers closes on 18
May: http://lanyrd.com/2012/over-the-air

As it says at: http://overtheair.org/blog/

"The 5th annual Over the Air will be held on Friday & Saturday, the 1st & 2nd of June at Bletchley Park – for two days over 600 mobile developers & designers will be based at Station X, hacking in the shadows of the WWII Enigma & Lorenz code-breakers, and hanging out at the home of Colossus the world’s first electronic digital programmable computer … we’re planning on launching the Alan Turing Centenary Year celebrations in style!"

10) We've got loads more news. More soon. Must mention the very original "Turing-Tape Games" challenge. A bit hard to explain the details, but it is great fun, and interesting for all ages, and you still have time to join - see:
http://algorithmicproblemsolving.org/competitions/turing-tape-games/

All for now, more very soon.

Including news on books, Rainbow Radio in Australia, A Turing Walk in Manchester, a Turing training run along the river in Cambridge, showings of the re-edited Channel 4 film on Turing, a shadow puppet theater performance exploring the life and work of Turing, a date for Andrew Hodges at the Royal Society (and a reminder of his Manchester talk on June 12), an Italian theatre company from Bologna touring "Alan Turing - L'attributo dell'intelligenza", ...

... and we told Bob Jones: bob@myriadits.co.uk that we would ask if anyone on this list knows if Turing contributed to the design of Colossus? He
says:

"We are small group of members of TNMoC Bletchley Park www.tnmoc.org - We are putting together the information panels and presentations for the BP Colossus Room renovation. So far we have failed to find much which connects Turing with Colossus but are confident that someone on your list will have just what we are looking for."

Please send any info directly to Bob, or to us to send on.

 

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First a reminder about links for getting and recording information - the main source of information on coming events is the ATY EVENTS OVERVIEW at:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?13
For this, send additions ammendments to: pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk

And there is an ATY EVENTS CALENDAR at:
http://www.chaturing.com/WebCalendar/year.php?year=2012
maintained by IT wizard Collette Curry from Manchester. To add an event, click on "Add New Event" in the "Events" drop-down menu.

And - there is a printable ATY EVENTS A4 HANDOUT at:
http://science.marshall.edu/mummertc/atycalendar.pdf
This is kindly provided by Carl Mummert from West Virginia, and is updated roughly monthly. If organisers of events can print off a few for their welcome packs or registration desks, that would be much appreciated!

Anyway, let's start with events in the next 2 weeks on the list:

1) Today (hopefully you are already there!) we have the eagerly anticipated (no cliche in this case!) launch of the re-published Biography of Alan Turing by his mother Sara - and augmented by some fascinating new material, including an introduction by the legendary mathematician Martin Davis (who at 84 is flying all over the world giving Turing-related talks), and - a real discovery - a memoir from Alan's late brother John. It is full of the Turing sharpness of humour, a joy to read, and a window on the pre-pride days which were so unkind to Alan Turing before his death. Here is the Milton Keynes Citizen announcement of the
event: http://bit.ly/IhBMJZ

For those of us not able to be there, Mark Cotton is hoping to do an audio recording of Alan's nephew (and John's son) Sir Dermot Turing reading from the book for the Alan Turing Year AudioBoo page he maintains at:
http://audioboo.fm/AlanTuringYear

2) You may just have time to get to the Italian Cultural Institute at Belgrave Square in London to take in a musical performance with words by Carlo Boccadero and Valeria Patera (in Italian):
http://www.icilondon.esteri.it/IIC_Londra/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=907

What makes Valeria specially important to the Alan Turing Year is her play "Alan's Apple - Hacking the Turing Test" - she is currently raising funding for a 2012 tour of the play, taking in various UK venues. Lots of interesting links from Valeria's webpages:
http://www.valeriapatera.it/turing/

Btw, for a powerpoint presentation reviewing a whole swathe of Turing-related art, see:
http://w12.middlebury.edu/INTD1065A/Lecture%20%20folder/Artists%20React%20To%20Turing.pdf
Presenters Mike Olinick and Bob Martin gave Courses in Vermont on "Breaking the Code: The Enigma of Alan Turing" - see:
http://w12.middlebury.edu/INTD1065A/

3) Also in the US - on Wednesday 2 May we have "THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW" in Chicago featuring Alan Turing - it's hard to describe, sounds like great fun, with some serious content - including an interview with Hava Siegelmann, who has hit the headlines recently with her NSF funded plans for builing a super-Turing computer. See:
http://www.encyclopediashow.com/EncyclopediaShow/This_Month.html
http://bit.ly/IPmeLN
http://binds.cs.umass.edu/havaBio.html

4) Back on familiar Turing territory, a reminder about the? MK Gallery Project Space? May exhibition "Station X" - described as the result of a unique collaboration between artist Maya Ramsay, sound artist Caroline Devine, photographer Rachael Marshall and filmmaker Luke Williams - see the News Release, including the Preview event on Thursday 3rd May:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/MKGallery.pdf

Moving on to next week, we have two major events, with world-leading academics talking to wider public than is usual about Alan Turing and how the scientific legacy plays out in the 21st century:

5) Another reminder: May 10-11, we have the "Turing's Century" (T100) event in Edinburgh, with some great speakers on the 11th - David Harel on algorithms; Barbara Grosz from Harvard on AI; Philip Maini morphogenesis expert from Oxford; and computer FRS Steve Furber from Manchester. And on the 10th what promises to be a fascinating public lecture by Professor Jim Al Khalili. See: http://www.t100.org.uk/

6) And May 10-12 in Princeton sees the real heavyweight celebration of their famous alumnus AMT. One need just look at the programme:
http://www.princeton.edu/turing/events/
and speakers: http://www.princeton.edu/turing/speakers/
It's an event exceeds even the superb Goedel Centenary event organised by the Institute of Advanced Study back in 2006.

7) There is more news from Prof. Gopal about the Computer Society of India plans for "Alan Turing Year 2012 - India Celebrations". Here are some interesting materials, including powerpoint content:
http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/alan-turing-special

Detailed plans include a Turing Birthday event, 23-24 June in Kolkatta; and Alan Turing events in Bangalore and Kanpur in October. Interestingly, Professor Gopal contributed to the worldwide "Decode - Recode, 24 Hour Multimedia programme" on 23 March, organised by the University of Salford.

8) For something completely different: Rudy Rucker wrote back at the end of February that "My novel THE TURING CHRONICLES is out with some editors, though I doubt it'll be in print before 2012 is over. Here's an MP3 of me reading the first chapter 5 years ago, which was at that time a short story called "The Imitation Game." Anyway, I listened to it last night, and it's great, and overnight Mark Cotton has improved the sound quality and added it to the ATY AudioBoo page - enjoy:
http://audioboo.fm/AlanTuringYear

9) Another less academic item: Tony Cornah, who joined me on the Turing Trail Relay organised by Ely Runners in Marrch, asked about the promised Alan Turing Year-Ely Runners training run following Turing's riverside running routes between Cambridge and Ely. Well, thanks again to Ely Runners, it's still planned for Sunday 17th June. Watch the Events Overview for eventual details.

10) And will finish off this new-style 10 item update with an academic but fun event at King's College on June 15-16. It's a so-called "Turing's 100th Birthday Party" (actually a renamed ACE 2012), with lots of interesting speakers connected with the history of the computer. It provides a wonderful taster for the big CiE 2012 conference the following
week:
http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/

Jack Copeland tells me he is worried about people coming - he must be joking - he has a great affection for the history and the people who made it, and it shines through in his events. And he's an accomplished publicist. The event will be a real magnet.

Btw, there is also, maybe coordinated with this event, a Newton Institute talk and film related to Turing as a gay mathematician. It will be the Saturday evening, more details to follow.

All for now. Plenty to follow ...

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With just 7 weeks to go to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, here is the second centenary update in a week. Another 10 items:

1) For those who missed the Sara Turing Book Launch at Bletchley Park yesterday, here is Mark Cotton's AudioBoo recording of "Sir John Dermot Turing reading extracts from the Centenary Edition of Sara Turing's biography of her son Alan to mark one hundred years since the great man's birth. Recorded at Bletchley Park Mansion":
http://audioboo.fm/boos/779616-sara-turing-book-launch-at-bletchley-park

2) Latest from Stanford is that Wednesday May 2nd, Steven Ericsson-Zenith will be introducing Jack Copeland at Stanford University in an online session entitled The Alan Turing Centenary Lecture: "Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age" - see it at:
http://ee380.stanford.edu

3) Paul Brown sent us a link to a video of George Dyson being interviewed on his book "Turing's Cathedral" at the Computer History Museum at Mountain View, California:
http://www.brown-and-son.com/post/21889712206/turings-cathedral-author-george-dyson-in

This is part of the "Three Museums" initiative involving Bletchley Park (their lecture with Simon Lavington was last week), Mountain View, and the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Paderborn in Germany, where Horst Zuse, son of computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, will speak on May 26.

4) Manchester University have put online a News Release on the "Alan Turing Centenary Conference" to be held at The University of Manchester, 22nd to 25th June - describing it as the 'biggest event in the history of Computer Science':
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=8226

Maybe a slight over-sell, but it certainly will be an extraordinary event taking over Manchester Town Hall as the Olympic Flame comes past, and includind a stellar group of speakers, including friend of organiser Andrei Voronkov, no less than former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov:
http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/

One reads online that Garry Kasparov's normal speaker's fee is in excess of $75,000. To register for the conference, go to:
http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/registration

Deadline for reduced fee is May 3rd.

5) Also from Manchester, an update on the media attention-grabbing sunflower experiment. From organiser Erinma Ochu we heard last Friday (sorry Erinnma for delay):

"Ahead of your next Turing update, the Turing Sunflowers website is now live and nearly 3000 sunflowers have been pledged to be grown as part of the experiment:
www.turingsunflowers.com

People can of course still join in so long as they plant their sunflowers before the end of May 2012.

The project featured on a Guardian blog:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/apr/16/1

We will also be appearing on Men's Hour this Sunday evening, Radio 5 Live to talk about the project.

 

6) Also almost upon us is the 2012 Loebner Prize Competition, May 15 at Bletchley Park - there is a press release from organiser David Levy, revealing the 4 finalists:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/loebner2012.pdf
Full details at:
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

Top prize is $5000 and Annual Bronze Medal. David adds:
"If any company or organisation would like to have their name associated with this year's Loebner Prize contest in return for some sponsorship, please contact David Levy at davidlevylondon@yahoo.com "

7) Also at Bletchley Park, and expected to be hugely popular, are the University of Reading's Turing100 events. These are happening on Saturday June 23rd with events, for all ages, a range in the Drawing Room of the Mansion.

And with the historic Turing test contest on Turing's 100th birthday in the Billiard Room/Ballroom area - see the press release:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR371881.aspx

Organiser Huma Shah tells us:

"I'm also still trying to get lots of people involved as judges in the online Turing tests the university of Reading is conducted, so that they can shape the main event at Bletchley Park - would your children like to participate? All they need is a computer with access to the Internet and 30-60 minutes spare.
Judges have been enjoying the experience chatting to hidden entities, and there's still time for more people to grab this unique opportunity in this historic year (Turing test judging is not normally open to the public).

The dedicated email for interested pupils/students and others is Turing100atBletchleyPark@gmail.com "

8) Another exciting Turing Birthday event is the UK premiere of the experimental film "THE CREATOR" by filmmaker duo AL and AL. The premiere will take place at Cornerhouse in Manchester on Sat 23 March, 18:30pm -
see:
http://www.cornerhouse.org/film/cinema-listings/uk-premiere-al-al-the-creator

From the Cornerhouse Elisa Ruff says:

"You may have heard about it already, but the film explores the legendary visionary dreams of the creator of computers and pioneer of Artificial Intelligence, Alan Turing. Combining Lynchian nightmare with the prophetic themes of J.G. Ballard you will enter the surreal dream world of the visionary scientist, who gave birth to the computer age, as his binary children embark upon a mystical odyssey to explore their creator's dream diaries in a quest to discover their origins and destiny in the universe.
This unique new film commission premieres on the occasion of the centenary of Turing's birth."

9) Should mention, we first heard about 'The Creator' from Ian Watson - who has a new book 'The Universal Machine: From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness' due out later this year, and maintains a hugely informative and iteresting blog related to the book:
http://universal-machine.blogspot.co.uk/

He's also got an April 26 Scientific American Guest Blog on "How Alan Turing Invented the Computer Age":
blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/04/26/how-alan-turing-invented-the-computer-age/

10) Last item for this update: The ATY event "Physics and Computation 2012" to be held in Swansea, 29-31 August 2012 has just sent out its first announcement - described as "an interdisciplinary meeting on the frontiers of Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering and Biology", their deadline for submissions is July1, 2012, and their website is at:
http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/pc2012/

All for now! (please do remind us anything time-sensitive needs a mention
- updates will be more frequent over the Centenary period)

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We hear that the big meetings in Princeton and Edinburgh have been big successes, with lots of people and some fantastic talks. No report from the philosophy and computation meeting in Lund yet. Meanwhile, news coming thick and fast - here are another 10 items to start the week. We start with a few events due in the next few days:

1) On Tuesday we have the celebrated Loebner Prize Competition at Bletchley Park:
http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html

The best source of information is the Bletchley Park webpage:
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/661305

"The judges at the competition will conduct conversations with the four finalist chatbots and with some human surrogates, and will then rank all their conversation partners from most humanlike to least humanlike. The chatbot with the highest overall ranking wins the prize.

Visitors will be able to follow the conversations on screens in the Mansion and see if they can tell, themselves, whether they are generated by humans or computers. The conversations will also be streamed live to the internet for the first time this year."

2) And on Wednesday the Turing Year in China kicks off with a big computer science conference at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing:
http://turing2012.iscas.ac.cn/index.html

The main Turing ingredient will be 7 Turing Lectures over 16-21 May, including Turing Award inners John Hopcroft, Richard Karp and Andrew Yao.
On Thursday there will be a "China Science Future Star 2012" event with 2 of the Turing Lecturers talking about computer science and Alan Turing to around 300 Beijing high school students.

3) And, from the grandiose to some fascinating computer history for a more select audience of the cognoscenti - namely, the Computer Conservation Society and friends: On Thursday, at the Science Museum in London (2.30pm), Brian Carpenter will talk about "Alan Turing - Computer Design"
- focusing on the ACE and its history:
http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/20120517.htm

4) Lots of serious minded outreach in Hong Kong. All sorts of events in progress or planned. Another instalment on the 23rd May is a "2012 Alan Turing Year in Hong Kong Public Seminar" in Kowloon:
http://www.hkcs.org.hk/edm/20120503/Alan_Turing/

5) The next day, back in Manchester, we have expert Dr James Sumner on the history of computer science talking on "Alan Turing and his work in Manchester". It's 5.45 for 6.15pm, in the meeting rooms at The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, and promises to be a very interesting talk:
http://www.friendsofthejohnrylands.org/events/177/55-Alan-Turing-in-Manchester/

6) Another more academic meeting - this one part of the burgeoning Turing Year in Spain - a 'Conferencia' on the "Legacy of Alan Turing" in
Valencia: http://bit.ly/KU0dAa
More info (for Spanish readers) at: http://anyturing.blogs.upv.es/

7) Now for something quite different. James Turing, great nephew of Alan, would like us to include the following on his charitable foundation, doing excellent work in Africa:

"The Turing Trust is an Edinburgh-based charitable organization established in honour of Alan Turing, which works to fund schooling programs in Ghana.  As we progress into the centenary year, the Turing Trust is hoping to expand its commitment to teaching employable skills and computer literacy in impoverished communities in Ghana.

The trust was set up after James Turing, the great nephew of Alan Turing, volunteered in Ghana, teaching at a vocational training school, Afoako ICCES. Although the fees are only ￡15 per year, many students struggle to earn enough money to pay their fees or indeed feed themselves. Searching for a way to help the school provide a chance for its students to break free from poverty, James needed only to look to his great-uncle for inspiration, Alan Turing, father of computer science, who once said that “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”.One of the central aims of the Turing Trust is to bring the benefits of the IT revolution, inspired by Alan, in a lasting and self-sustaining way to rural communities in Africa.

Some of the many ways by which we commemorate Turing’s achievements include donating computers for use in the classroom, sponsoring students who are otherwise unable to afford an education, and constructing innovative learning spaces such as computer labs.  As a celebration of the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth, we have prepared a ready-to-go pub quiz about Alan Turing and the many ways in which he changed the world. This is meant to provide an entertaining night out for the members of your organization, as well as much-needed contributions towards the Turing Trust’s work. Please contact james@turingtrust.co.uk, or see www.turingtrust.co.uk for further information."

8) One of the most exciting pieces of news is that Hugh Whitemore's great Turing play: "Breaking the Code" is being perfomed in mainland Europe, being taken on a 6-perfomance tour by student actors the University Players. Strangely, we have still not had news of the promised professional stagings in London and New York, which has denied performing rights to amateur performances in the UK and USA. For details of the European tour:
http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/BreakingTheCode/

9) Now here's a really imaginative Turing Year event, at Bletchley Park like so many imaginative ventures. The 2012 Over The Air event at Bletchley Park is due for June 1-2. And the Call for Speakers closes on 18
May: http://lanyrd.com/2012/over-the-air

As it says at: http://overtheair.org/blog/

"The 5th annual Over the Air will be held on Friday & Saturday, the 1st & 2nd of June at Bletchley Park – for two days over 600 mobile developers & designers will be based at Station X, hacking in the shadows of the WWII Enigma & Lorenz code-breakers, and hanging out at the home of Colossus the world’s first electronic digital programmable computer … we’re planning on launching the Alan Turing Centenary Year celebrations in style!"

10) We've got loads more news. More soon. Must mention the very original "Turing-Tape Games" challenge. A bit hard to explain the details, but it is great fun, and interesting for all ages, and you still have time to join - see:
http://algorithmicproblemsolving.org/competitions/turing-tape-games/

All for now, more very soon.

Including news on books, Rainbow Radio in Australia, A Turing Walk in Manchester, a Turing training run along the river in Cambridge, showings of the re-edited Channel 4 film on Turing, a shadow puppet theater performance exploring the life and work of Turing, a date for Andrew Hodges at the Royal Society (and a reminder of his Manchester talk on June 12), an Italian theatre company from Bologna touring "Alan Turing - L'attributo dell'intelligenza", ...

... and we told Bob Jones: bob@myriadits.co.uk that we would ask if anyone on this list knows if Turing contributed to the design of Colossus? He
says:

"We are small group of members of TNMoC Bletchley Park www.tnmoc.org - We are putting together the information panels and presentations for the BP Colossus Room renovation. So far we have failed to find much which connects Turing with Colossus but are confident that someone on your list will have just what we are looking for."

Please send any info directly to Bob, or to us to send on.

 

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Here is the week ahead, and more, divided roughly into 'general interest'
and 'academic events'.

GENERAL INTEREST:

 

 

1) Already in progress are 3 days of events at Manchester Metropolitan University - see the webpage: http://www.chaturing.co.uk/ May 29th-30th has a Schools day with artwork and story-writing competitions, and a student chatbot contest with Turing test web portal and a Chess day amongst other things.

2) From Huma Shah:? Do you have a child/teenager aged between 10-17 and do you live near Bletchley Park? Then nominate your child to act as a Turing test judge at Bletchley Park on Saturday 23 June 2012, prize for Best Child Judge is a Raspberry Pi computer: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Nice touch - Turing's birthplace, The Colonnade Hotel London, is to award 'Winning Machine' trophy - And Best Adult Judge, trophy awarded by University of Reading

T nominate prospective Turing test judges, contact Dr. Huma Shah on Turing100atBletchleyPark@gmail.com - hurry, only six slots left. For more info. on this great actual centenary event, see:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/T100flyer.pdf

3) Peter Giblin passes on the news that the British Science Festival in Aberdeen 4-9 Sept 2012 will have a Turing-related event:

Event T104: Turing: the human vs the machine (Alan Turing invites you to speed date ... with a computer!) with Robin Whitty. It is on Sunday 9th September, Meston Building Lecture theatre 1: University of Aberdeen.

4) Some interesting artistic events brewing via artist Craig Morrison:
http://cmd.co.uk/
For the moment we just mention the blinc Digital Arts Festival - BLINC 2012, in Conwy, Wales, October 27-28:
http://blincdigital.com/

This year blinc 2012 will commemorate the Alan Turing centenary. The whole town will again play host to lots of different artforms from all over the world.

5) From John Pickstone we hear:

"Thanks to the good work of Collette Curry at MMU and Jenny Boden at UoM, the local Turing centenary web-site is now running and populated:
www.turingmanchester.com
Do please use it - write to Collette; and feel free to pass on the good news (and the adddress)."

6) The Hong Kong events have given rise to a number of YouTube videos:

Barry Cooper's public seminar in HK on Alan Turing (in 3 parts)
23 May 2012, 7-9pm at Hong Kong Productivity Council:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uphnX8qu8gc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdXhAQFw5o8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3D13OhL_ss

And the Speaker luncheon at CyberPort, HK by Barry Cooper (3 parts, including final run-down of ATY in Hong Kong):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjkbNoWrKl4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-FEVKIVvD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNOm8k-Q4M

And - Harmonica performance on Alan Turing Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FciH0E2Ef7A

And RTHK-3 radio interview
http://programme.rthk.org.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3%2Fmor
ning_brew&d=2012-05-23&p=2505&e=179378&m=episode

7) John Leech MP has written to us at length about his efforts to get a pardon for Alan Turing. Part of his letter reads:

"On my blog, johnleechmp.wordpress.com, I have written a number of articles in order to keep people informed of the issues involved. I have also had a letter published in the Manchester Evening News arguing the case for justice for Alan Turing which I have attached to this email for your attention.
By achieving justice for those wrongly treated in the past this campaign will help to break down barriers and allow us to work further towards a world without prejudice or discrimination."

The petition for a pardon has nearly 34,000 signatures now:
http://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23526

Please publicise it to anyone who has not yet signed the petition.

8) Simon Lavington told us

"On 26th April I gave a half-hour Powerpoint presentation at Bletchley Park that attempted to set Turing's ACE work in the context of other contemporary (UK) efforts to build stored-program computers."

You can see his talk online at: http://www.tnmoc.org/36/section.aspx/244

9) Don't forget Over the Air 2012! http://lanyrd.com/2012/over-the-air

10) Andrew Hodges is giving a public lecture for the Royal Society on October 17th, chaired by Prof. John Pethica FRS, who is Royal Society Physical.

11) From the Edito in chief of "Science Guide" we got the following link to an interview with David Harel, plus the description follows:

http://www.scienceguide.nl/201205/spread-your-butter-thin.aspx

"I do hope this interview honoring Alan Turing will attract your interest and appreciation. We at ScienceGuide.eu and ScienceGuide.nl have spoken extensively with prof David Harel, a great admirer of Turing and one of the top scientists who have followed his lead in computer sciences."

12) And via Peter van Emde Boas the following audio interview with Andrew
Hodges: http://bit.ly/K8aXL5

13) Not to be missed (for those in New York) - May 31, the world premiere of The Creator, "a beautiful and surreal short-form film by award-winning British filmmakers Al+Al, which follows sentient computers from the future on a mystical odyssey to discover their creator: legendary computer scientist Alan Turing":
http://worldsciencefestival.com/events/the_creator

14) There are a few interesting arts projects need publicising/funding support - but all for now - time for the ...

ACADEMIC EVENTS:

1) In Rome, you can hear Turing Award winner Judea Pearl at "Un premio Turing per onorare la memoria di Alan Turing", 29 May, 2012:
http://w3.uniroma1.it/dipinfo/lectio_magistralis.asp#196

Prof. Pearl's invited lecture is the culmination of a day devoted to Turing's legacy, organised by the Department of Computer Science of Rome's University "Sapienza".

2) Edward Feigenbaum is the keynote Turing speaker at the 2012 World Intelligence Congress, 4-7 December 2012, Macau, China:
http://www.fst.umac.mo/wic2012/

3) Alex Wilkie says Logic Colloquium 2012 has grants available to support students and recent PhD's (up to 3 years ago) to attend the conference in Manchester next July:
http://www.mims.manchester.ac.uk/events/workshops/LC2012/support.php

4) A fascinating conference just joined the ATY is the Fifth Artificial General Intelligence Conference (AGI-12), in Oxford Dec. 8-11, 2012:
http://agi-conf.org/2012/call-for-papers/

Contact: Ben Goertzel http://wp.goertzel.org/

5) From Irek Ulidowski: Concur 12 in Newcastle will have two invited lectures celebrating the Alan Turing Year. Jos Baeten with speak on "Turing meets Milner" and Brian Randell will present "A Turing trail" -
see:
http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/concur-2012/speakers.html

6) John Barnden reports on the AISB/IACAP World Congress, 2-6 July 2012:
"The Early Bird registration deadline has flown somewhat further into the future, namely to 11 June". The congress has over 180 talks - see:
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/

7) Co-located with the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester we have IJCAR 2012 - The 6th International Joint Conference on Automated
Reasoning:
http://ijcar.cs.man.ac.uk/

Their Final Call for Participation recently went out, with Early Registration Deadline Extented to May 30th.

8) From David Griol, we have news from Spain:

"The Computer Science Department at the Carlos III University of Madrid is organizing a course about Alan Turing and his contributions to different sciences. It will held in Madrid (Spain) from November to December 2012. ... The complete information is available at:
http://www.lab.inf.uc3m.es/~dgriol/cursoTuring/ "

9) We hear from Nachum Dershowitz that the Turing Centennial Conference, part of the Turing Year in Israel programme of events, was a huge success
- they got over 600 people, attracted by the star list of speakers.

10) From Marta Sanz-Sole we heard that Philip Welch had been invited to give a special lecture on Turing's legacy for the 6th European Congress of Mathematics, 2-7 July, 2012, in Krakow, Poland. His talk is titled:
"Mechanising the Mind: Turing and the Computable - a centenary lecture "
See:
http://www.6ecm.pl/en/programme/special-lectures/special-lectures

11) Starting tomorrow:? 1st Annual Conference on Complexity and Human Experience - Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte:
https://sites.google.com/site/humancomplexity2012/

12) June will be *very* busy - for full details, go to:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?13

Of course, an Alan Turing Year is once in a lifetime ... and there is still time to sign up for an amazing programme of diverse and fascinating events ...

More to follow soon.

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Just 10 items need adding to this week's update:

1) Simon Singh reminds me he is giving 2 Turing talks at the famous Hay Literary Festival next weekend - or what looks like 2 editions of the same talk:

Sunday 3 June 2012, at 9am and at 8.30pm Simon Singh: The science writer celebrates the centenary of the genius mathematician and code-breaker, who deciphered the German naval cables in WWII, and demonstrates the encryption techniques on his own, original Enigma Machine. See:
http://www.hayfestival.com/p-5103-simon-singh.aspx
http://www.hayfestival.com/p-4605-simon-singh.aspx (this one sold out)

2) From Juan Jose Moreno in Madrid, news of the Turing Year in Spain:
http://turing.coddii.org

In particular, he is coordinating a summer course in the Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo (UIMP) in Santander, entitled:

"Primer Encuentro en Homenaje a Alan Turing - 2012 Ano de la Informatica"
(First Encounter : Tribute to Alan Turing - 2012 Year of Computer Science)

He adds: Additionally, we want to analyze the significant progress of CS in Spain, studying the contributions in each of its sub-areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Architecture , Software Development/Engineering, Natural Language, Image Processing, etc.. The course will run from August 6th til 8th. Santander is wonderful in summer and the atmosphere of UIMP is unique:
http://www.uimp.es/blogs/santander/

3) Daniel Toschlager has made an excellent banner for use on Facebook or similar - see:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/alans_banner.jpg

If you have a use for the banner, please let us know, in the interests of coordination - obviously we don't want identity confusion. Daniel is happy for the banner to be used, with his name added as a credit under it. We have the source alans_banner.xcf for Gimp, if useful.

4) Roland Backhouse, organiser of the Turing-Tape Games competition:
http://algorithmicproblemsolving.org/competitions/turing-tape-games/

says there is a lot of interest from schools in China. He has prepared a flyer for the competition in Chinese:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/chinese.flyer.pdf

Does anybody have a Weibo account, where they can use the flyer to promote the competition in China?

5) Gerda van Wees from the Alan Turing Institute Almere reports:

"At ATIA, we are very busy organizing the conference on November 1st. The conference website is online: www.atiaconference.nl

and we sent an announcement to all our relations. The site is in Dutch, so is the announcement. The organization decided to do so regarding our
audience: 95% will be speaking the Dutch language. Of course, Michael Wooldridge will give his presentation in English and all slides will be in English too."

6) The programme for the AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Rome, 13-15 June, 2012, is now available:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/programme.AIIA.jpg

A highlight will be the July 15 performance of the multimedia play "Alan's Apple, Hacking the Turing Test" by Valeria Patera.

7) On May 17th Ignazio Licata introduced to the Palermo Queer Festival:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/TuringOpera.jpg

audience the Italian premiere of The Turing Machine opera by Eeppi Ursin and Visa-Pekka Mertanen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmdTA7jkzYA

As a physicist who works on computation he spoke of the intellectual inheritance of Alan. As Ignazio puts it (slightly praphrased): "I also conjugate the queer concept in a non trivial way with a special attention to human singularity. In this sense, we attempt a parallelism to Wittgenstein ("Wittgenstein" by Derek Jarman was also shown). Two men who explored the extreme limits of the logical description of the World, with enduring relevance to our present new era."

8) Brian Brannon from the IEEE Computer Society has written to update the link to the video "Alan Turing at Bletchley Park" that Computer Magazine did for the Alan Turing Year (available now via the ATY webpage):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nK_ft0Lf1s

As Brian says: "Chuck Severance visited Bletchley Park and got some outstandinginterviews about Turing and his work as a codebreaker during World War II." Please share!

9) The irrepressible Piergiorgio Odifreddi appears as a lead speaker in a new ATY event in Florence. Pierluigi Crescenzi writes:

> Prof. Betti Venneri and myself are organizing a series of events here
> in Florence in order to celebrate the Turing Centenary. In particular,
> there will be a series of special lectures (indeed, the series started
> on May 16) at the end of September and the beginning of October.
> Moreover, there will be a programming contest and other activities. A
> preliminary description of all these events is contained in the
> following web site: http://piluc.dsi.unifi.it/turing/

10) Two more ATY conferences going online this week:

*** From Benedikt Loewe we hear:

"We just opened the webpage for the Dutch ATY event at

?? http://www.turing100.nl

It would be nice if you could link it from the appropriate pages."

Definitely - and includes a performance of "Breaking the Code" we see.

*** And from Ben Goertzel news of a fantastic event in Oxford to round out the Alan Turing Year in December - actually 2 events as part of the Winter Intelligence Conference:
http://www.winterintelligence.org/

There is the 5th Conference in Artificial General Intelligence which looks at the likely future of the field of Artificial General
Intelligence: http://agi-conf.org/2012/

and the AGI Impacts conference which analyses the issues and risks surrounding the creation of such machines:
http://www.winterintelligence.org/oxford2012/agi-impacts/

More to follow soon - we only get one Alan Turing Year 2012!

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Alan Turing Year Events for June 2012
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There is a wide range of ATY events taking place in the run-up to Turing's birthday, and through to the end of June. This list mainly concerns academic activities, though you will find a number of events of more general interest - more in our regular update.

For full details go to the ATY events overview for June:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?13#June

An urgent reminder - last chance for online registration for the CiE 2012 Turing Centenary Conference is Friday 8th June - with the registration page at:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~amp66/CiE%20Homepage/

Registrations are heading towards 400, making it the largest meeting ever in the world to be centred around basic issues of computability.

A number of people are combining CiE 2012 with the major Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester, and are asking about transport (trains are frequent and take around three and three quarter hours from Cambridge). There is a small overlap between the meetings, but it is quite possible to get the best of both conferences with just an inevitable small overlap of events on the Friday night and Saturday morning.

The Manchester meeting is a remarkable event, different in character to the Cambridge conference, but nicely complementing it. It is more in the spirit of the huge ACM Turing Centenary event in San Francisco the weekend before - which needs no advertising, but see:
http://turing100.acm.org/index.cfm?p=home

To register for the Manchester conference (an impressive array of plenary speakers, including around 10 Turing Award recipients) go to:
http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/registration/registration-general

Deadline is now June 11th. Students should enquire about funding support, there may still be concessions/grants available.

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Detailed listing of events
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* June 11-13, 2012: International Mathematica Symposium 2012 (IMS2012), University College London, with speaker Andrew Hodges http://web.me.com/profwilliamshaw1/ims2012announce1/IMS2012.html

* June 12, 2012: Lecture by Andrew Hodges on Alan Turing: the Power of Mathematical Discovery in Manchester http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/PublicEvents/hodges_lecture.php

* June 12-15, 2012: The Isaac Newton Institute Satellite Workshop on THE INCOMPUTABLE, at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Chicheley Hall (this already full) http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/inc/

* June 13-16, 2012: The 12th AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Rome, including June 14-16, 2012: Popularize Artificial Intelligence
(PAI-2012)
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/%7Eaiia12/

* June 13-30, 2012: An 2012 Alan Turing Centenary Commemorative Exhibition in Hong Kong
http://www.hkac.org.hk/en/calendar.php?id=781

* June 14, 2012: Software Craftsmanship 2012 at Bletchley Park http://www.codemanship.co.uk/softwarecraftsmanship/

* June 14 - October 6, 2012: Exhibition Turings Erfenis at CWI in Amsterdam http://www.cwi.nl/news/2012/exhibition-turings-erfenis-at-centrum-wiskunde-informatica-opens-it-doors

* June 15-16, 2012: The ACM A. M. Turing Centenary Celebration in San Francisco http://turing100.acm.org/index.cfm?p=home

* June 15-16, 2012: ACE 2012 - Alan Turing's SURPRISE 100th Birthday Party at King's College Cambridge https://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/

* June 16, 2012: Reflections on Alan Turing's Life (1912-1954). 6pm at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/DCM2012/Turing/

* June 17, 2012: All Turing Year supporters are invited to join members of Ely Runners for a Training Run near Cambridge http://www.elyrunners.co.uk/

* June 17, 2012: The 8th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Model, DCM 2012 at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/DCM2012/

* June 21, 2012 to June, 2013: Codebreaker - Alan Turing's Life and Legacy, at the Science Museum in London http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx

* June 22, 2012: A Seattle Concert and Installation in Honor of Alan Turing , as part of the Wayward Music Series http://synthesist.net/music/2012/03/a-seattle-concert-and-installation-in-honor-of-alan-turing/

* June 22-23, 2012: A Turing Centenary Bangalore - The State of Computing:
Alan Turing Birth Centenary Conference in Bangalore, India https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenarybangalore/

* June 22 - December, 2012: As part of the Brazilian Alan Turing Year: A Special Lecture Series celebrating the Alan Turing Year, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
http://www.ufrgs.br/alanturingbrasil2012/eng/

* June 23, 2012: Manchester Walks - Alan Turing Centenary Tribute Walk http://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/walks-tours/science/alan-turing-tortured-genius-of-the-computer-age-2/

* June 23, 2012: UK Premiere of experimental film The Creator by internationally-reknown artists Al & Al, 6:30pm at The Cornerhouse in Manchester http://www.cornerhouse.org/art/art-events/filmmakers-qa-al-al-the-creator

* June 23, 2012: TURING100 at BLETCHLEY PARK is a one-day family event open to members of the public visiting on the historic day http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm

* June 23, 2012: A Turing Centenary Symposium, as part of the fifth North American Summer School of Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI 2012) http://nasslli2012.com/turing

* June 23, 2012: A Dorkboat up the Thames linked to Turing's Birthday (sold out)
http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/Dorkboat12

* June 23-24, 2012: TURING'S WORLDS, at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford - Turing centenary related BSHM/OUDCE Annual Residential Meeting http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=G100-20

* June 23-24, 2012 : One-Day Seminar on: "Computability, Complexity and the Digital Era" to coincide with the Centenary of Alan Turing, Kolkata, India
http://indiatechonline.com/viewimage.php?id=378

* June 23-26, 2012: Alan Turing Centenary and Theory of Computation Summer School 2012 (CCA 2012), in Daejeon, South Korea
http://open.nims.re.kr/new/event/event.php?workType=home&Idx=78

* June 24-27, 2012: Ninth International Conference on Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2012), in Cambridge http://cca-net.de/cca2012/

* June 25-28, 2012: Twenty-Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2012) at the University of Dubrovnik http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/lics/lics12/

* June 26-29, 2012: IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity 2012 (CCC'12), in Porto, Portugal http://computationalcomplexity.org/

* June 26 - July 1, 2012: IJCAR 2012 - The 6th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, in Manchester http://ijcar.cs.manchester.ac.uk/

*June 28-29, 2012: Simposio Turing 2012, a two day event held at the Department of Computer Science, CINVESTAV, Mexico
http://www.cs.cinvestav.mx/SimposioTuring2012

* June 29 - July 11, 2012: Summer School in Cognitive Sciences 2012 - Evolution and Function of Consciousness, in Montreal, Canada http://www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca/page/renseignement.php

* June 30, 2012: The Turing Education Day (TED) at Bletchley Park, incorporating the Alan Turing Memorial Lecture 2012 http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/resources/file.rhtm/662542/ted+programme+-+low+res.pdf

And lots more to follow in July. Please do support the organisers of this extraordinary programme of events - it is a unique opportunity, and will leave Turing's legacy both more developed, and more broadly understood and appreciated.

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As we start to write this centenary week update, one feels like a rabbit in the headlights - just so many amazing events happening. Some of them, one is lucky enough to be at. Replete with very interesting people, some of them old with secret information and unusual thoughts to share; others still young, with energy and promise for the future, and new ideas ...

1) We start with the grand event just taken place in San Francisco, the large ACM meeting on Friday and Saturday. One can watch the webcast:
http://turing100.acm.org/index.cfm?p=webcast

What a great tribute it records. With people like William Newman and Wendy Hall from the UK, and a whole lot of fascinating footage. The integrity and generosity of this centenary event leaves us with a lot to live up to.

Also from the US we have timely articles in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society on morphogenesis and incomputability (2 of Turing's most important, but less well-known interests) - here's "Incomputability after Alan Turing":
http://www.ams.org/notices/201206/rtx120600776p.pdf

Those just returned from the superb multidisciplinary Chicheley Hall workshop on "The Incomputable" (a satellite event of the Newton Institute Turing programme), might be interested in the photos from artist and photographer Debbie Ericsson-Zenith:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0nlllupa2y636au/SLZ7NGAKY1

A more permanent link with higher defn photos to follow, as well as photos taken by Virginia Davis. Sir Roger Penrose and "The Incomputable"
co-organiser Barry Cooper features, with computer scientist Tom Crick, in an Alan Turing Special on Science Cafe on BBC Radio Wales at 7pm on Tues: http://bbc.in/LuD4kC (will be on iPlayer too)

Another interesting radio programme is "The Turing Solution" from BBC Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jqjl5

2) Also this side of the Atlantic, there are some weighty events almost upon us. The excellent ACE 2012 Turing 100th Birthday Party at
King's: http://turing100.net/
is just past.

As is the Newton Institute event with Bob Lubarsky focusing on the 'perpetratorless crime' (so we're told) against Alan Turing the gay mathematician. With the possibly UK premier of the moving "Codebreaker" film (updated) from Patrick Sammon's team.
http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/DCM2012/Turing/

Next:

The CiE 2012 Turing Centenary Conference in Cambridge starts in earnest on the 19th June, with a record number of talks and more than 400
participants: http://www.cie2012.eu

You can still register at the door, or go to the free public lectures featuring Ian Stewart and Andrew Hodges.

On the Saturday, outside King's College at 3:30pm, you can join the public ceremony to unveil a Blue Plaque for Alan Turing:
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/news/2012/turing-plaque.html
http://bit.ly/Ma6rd7
The unveiling will be streamed live on the King's College webpage.

This will be one of 3 plaques being unveiled that day, others being in Hastings (Baston Lodge, 1 Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards-on-Sea, where Alan and John Turing spent their early lives) at 2:30pm:
https://twitter.com/AlanTuringYear/status/211456711398129664/photo/1/large

and Manchester University, where Garry Kasparov will do the unveiling at
12:30pm: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=8390

3) Up in Manchester, it is still possible to register for the big Alan Turing Centenary Conference there, with its plethora of Turing Award
winners: http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/
Also, one can see the winners of the Turing Centenary Fellowship competition receive their awards from the Lord Mayor of Manchester, with brief tributes by Sir Roger Penrose and AI wizard Rodney Brooks.

4) Coincidentally, Manchester MP and Turing advocate John Leech was born in Hastings. He has just joined the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (TCAC), as the petition for a full Government pardon for Alan Turing passes 34,218 signatures - another Alan Turing Year record:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23526

5) Moving further affield - Hector Zenil tells us "There is now a webpage (or rather the poster):
http://algorithmicnature.org/TuringUNAM.pdf

for the June 26-28, 2012: Alan Turing: From Computers to Life conference in the National University of Mexico (UNAM)

6) We have encouraging news from Scittish composer Julian Wagstaff, who is hopeful of finally putting together the funding he needs for the national tour of his short opera "The Turing Test":
http://www.julianwagstaff.com/ttt/index.html

He writes: "We have provisional dates in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London for the first week in December 2012 ..." and tells us he has a crucial funding application in, decision in August. He says: "With the money, the tour will happen. Without it, it will not." Fingers crossed.

7) Benedikt Loewe sent us this (our German is not so great):
http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/forschungundgesellschaft/

8) We must give a mention to the TURING EDUCATIONAL DAY (TED 2012) - a fantastic line-up of speakers:
http://www.bletchleypark.org/resources/file.rhtm/660784/speakers+list+-+low+res.pdf
Details of how to book:
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/calendar/event_detail.rhtm?cat=*&recID=652996

9) I should also mention that Michael Murrin has taken the initiative of writing to Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, raising again the possibility of the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square been used to commemorate the unique contribution of Alan Turing to a country that has consistently failed to properly commemorate the work of one of its very greatest scientists.
Michael wrote:

"I would like to propose that a more permanent reminder of Alan Turings contribution to the war effort would be to use the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square to erect a statue in recognition of him."

Surprisingly, there is also a UK Government ePetition online (previous attempts have been disqualified as not Gvernment responsibility) - here it is - please sign if qualified to do it:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/29811

This is a campaign going back some years - see Andrew Hodges' Turing Homepage on memorials to Turing:
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/memorial.html

10) Lots more interesting things coming from Hong Kong. Loke Lay sent this touching artistic tribute to Alan Turing and Christopher Morcom by Hong Kong cartoonist Honsan Awong:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/TuringMorcom.jpg

And how about the 'White Cat Black Cat' comic featuring Alan Turing:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/White.Cat.Black.Cat.pdf

The exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Centre runs until June 20th:
http://www.hkac.org.hk/en/calendar.php?id=781

11) Just received some wonderful photos of the Ely Runners Alan Turing Centenary training run along the river from Turing's old college King's.
Was too busy preparing this update to join them, but they clearly did Alan the marathon runner proud:
http://bit.ly/KU7dqw

Organiser Stephen Howard wrote: "Enjoyed it immensely - good company, fine weather and ample refreshments at the finish. A fine way to celebrate Alan Turing's 100th!"

12) Anna Bunney from the Manchester Museum asked us to mention interesting lecture by John Pickstone at the Museum "Creativity in tough times: Turing and Manchester University after the Second World War" - it's on Thursday
28 June, 6-8pm - book via 0161 275 2648, free

13) We do have information on availability of the acclaimed film of 'Breaking the Code'. Ask us if you are interested in the latest situation.

14) From Luca Cardelli we have news of some Italian ATY events:
http://piluc.dsi.unifi.it/turing/

For many, there will be special interest attached to:
Oct. 1st: Piergiorgio Odifreddi: Turing: informatica, spionaggio e sesso

15) John Pickstone has sent us two super banners re Turing and Manchester
University: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/Images/banner.pdf

16) We got news of this "Alan Turing Centenary Mini-Conference", 13th June in Tartu, Estonia too late to publicise - but it's still very interesting to see the information:
http://courses.cs.ut.ee/visionaries/Main/AlanTuring

17) Astrid Engelen of IOS press tells us of two special Turing issues of
journals: Namely, the first issue of the new journal Computability is just
out: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/mj4392x342x8/
And, a special issue of Fundamenta Mathematica:
http://iospress.metapress.com/content/wp82453p31j4/

18) Olivia Brenner tells us: I've written an english page for our Turing event in september : http://turing2012.loria.fr/Welcome.html
It's no less than 3 separate conferences in September, with one nice webpage.

19) From BBC Radio 4 - "The Turing Solution":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jqjl5

20) And finally - it's already 3:26am - there's a lot of information from the amazing Anna Dumitriu and the Arts and Culture Subcommittee:

"The Alan Turing Year Arts and Culture Subcommittee got an Arts Council England grant for our "Intuition and Ingenuity" to develop and further tour it.

We've also just commissioned a wonderful cake for the Dorkboat Alan Turing Birthday Party (it'll be an Enigma Machine, an apple with a little Alan Turing on top). We are also having Turing themed fancy dress and there will be a special live performance of Martin A Smith's "Sound Portrait of Alan Turing" accompanied by a stunning VJ performance by Alex May.

We are also going to be exhibiting the show in Birmingham at the AISB conference, then Aberdeen for the British Science Festival, then at the London Digital Festival Digital Weekend (with many of the artists present) and then on to Leicester and perhaps elsewhere - watch this space."

Apologies for the information overload. But we are celebrating the 100th birthday of someone who helped usher in the computer revolution, that enables us to handle previously undreamt of quantities of information.
There is lots more to come during this unique geek week.

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One day to the Alan Turing Centenary. More news, in no special order:

1) The Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester starts today!

It features 2 public lectures, 17 invited talks, and 2 panels. The least of speakers includes 9 Turing Award winners, Garry Kasparov, George Ellis, Robert Penrose and many more. The conference programme is available at

http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/programme

Live streaming will be provided by videolectures.net and available at

? https://vox.arnes.si/gost2/index.php?id=turing100

 

2) A new Guardian Northerner Blog focuses on Britain's bullied geeks - and how the achievements of Alan Turing can give encouragement to school kids who 'think different':
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/jun/20/alan-turing-geeks?CMP=twt_gu

3) The BBC is doing Turing proud with a series of Turing items - here is
today's:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18538419

Of course, the main drift of Turing's 1936 paper was that computers cannot do everything - but that is harder to explain to a "whole world gone barmy about computers".

They also have a timely piece from Andrew Hodges on "Alan Turing: Gay codebreaker's defiance keeps memory alive"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18350956

Andrew is giving a public lecture tonight on "100 years of Alan Turing, 1000000 years of the computer", as part of the huge "Alan Turing Centenary Conference" in Cambridge. Venue: Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site - http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/37190

4) We've had a wonderful offer from artist Maxine Sullivan, for her superb portrait of Alan Turing to be loaned for display in a suitable public venue - see: http://bit.ly/Lar6tC

If you would like to host Maxime's Turing portrait, of have a suggestion for a good place, contact:
Andrew Rynham <andrew.rynham@parliament.uk>

5) The opening of the Science Museum's new exhibition 'Codebreaker – Alan Turing's life and legacy' was a very grand event, with hundreds of guests
- see the video via the Guardian introducing this unmissable exhibit:
http://bit.ly/NTxewo

We hear Dermot Turing's contribution was excellent - he's been busy, also spoke entertainingly at the King's College banquet for CiE 2012 last night.

See also http://bit.ly/L7HN90 from Polari Magazine

6) Michael Murrin's writes regarding his campaign for a Turing memorial on the Trafalgar Square "Fourth Plinth" that:

I have done as much as I can for the moment.  The e-petition is up and the domain names etc: are registered.  Apart from what I have sent through I can confirm that there is other political interest at a very high level in this idea, we will just have to see how that develops.
It is becoming a realistic possibility that this project gets off the ground BUT it will need momentum - the contacting of Boris Johnson and signatures on the petition are essential tools to add to the pressure. The response from the academic community is important and there does need to be more of it.

The ePetition is at: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/34992

7) There are many special events in the next few days - I'll must mention the *very* special TURING100 event at Bletchley Park - Turing100 will stage a Turing Test contest at Bletchley Park, the place where Alan Turing broke codes during the second world war, on the centenary of his birth, Saturday 23rd June, 2012 - see:
http://www.kevinwarwick.com/turing100.htm

But - all this news is time-sensitive, so we'll send with just an outline listing of further events below, taken from
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?13

where you will find all the links. More to follow. Don't hold back from telling us what we've missed out - there's only one Turing centenary ...

 

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Alan Turing Centenary Day:

*** June 22, 2012: A Seattle Concert and Installation in Honor of Alan Turing , as part of the Wayward Music Series at Seattle's wonderful venue for experimental music, the Chapel Performance Space. Will include a number of musical pieces, poetry that paraphrases a proof by Turing in the style of Dr. Seuss, the work of several visual artists, and small vignettes from Turing's life. Organiser: David Stutz

*** June 22-23, 2012: A Turing Centenary Bangalore - The State of
Computing: Alan Turing Birth Centenary Conference , at the Department of Computer Science, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India. The two-day conference will celebrate Turing's work and contributions to computing and the subsequent IT revolution while also revisiting its limitations pointed out by Turing and G?del. In particular, the questions of whether, how and when computing machines and software programs will move to higher levels of intelligence and usability will be debated.
Includes India premiere of the new edition of the film Codebreaker.

*** June 22-25, 2012: TURING 100 - TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE at Manchester University and the Manchester City Hall. With Honorary Chairs Rodney Brooks and Sir Roger Penrose, and featuring lectures by sixteen major figures including Vint Cerf, Ed Clarke, Tony Hoare, Yuri Matiyasevich, Michael Rabin and Garry Kasparov. Organised in cooperation with the University of Manchester and Manchester City Council. Supported by the Kurt G?del Society, and funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
Will include presentation of the awards to the winners of the JTF Turing Centenary Research Fellowship and Scholar Competition. DEADLINE for submitting an application for a grant (￡45,000 for Turing Scholars, ￡75,000 for Turing Fellows) is December 16, 2011. Click HERE for instructions on how to apply. Contacts: Andrei Voronkov (Chair, Organising Committee), Matthias Baaz (Vice President, Kurt G?del Society), and S Barry Cooper (Chair, Turing Fellowship Competition)

*** June 22 - December, 2012: As part of the Brazilian Alan Turing Year: A Special Lecture Series celebrating the Alan Turing Year, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Distinguished speakers from Brazil, the UK and the USA will contribute a cycle of invited talks for both academic and general audiences, focusing on different aspects of Computer Science and legacies from Alan Turing's work. The first lecture on June 22 will be given by Prof. Luis Lamb, on Alan Mathison Turing and the Turing Award Winners: A short journey through the history of Computer Science.
Contacts: Marcelo Walter (Lecture
Series) and Dante Barone (General Organiser)

*** June 23, 2012: Manchester Walks - Alan Turing Centenary Tribute Walk, starts Manchester Museum reception, off Oxford Road, 11am. "Alan Turing was cremated at Woking; his life-size statue occupies pride of place in Sackville Park where we end the tour." Cost: 5 pounds.
Contact: Ed Glinert (author The Manchester Compendium - A Street-by-Street History of England's Greatest Industrial City)

*** June 23, 2012: One-Day Seminar on: Computability, Complexity and the Digital Era to coincide with the Centenary of Alan Turing, in Kolkata, India. Part of a year long roster of events to honour Alan Turing, father of Computer Science, on the centenary of his birth, June 23, 2012. See also the Computer Society of India Web Page. Contact: Dr. T. V. Gopal

*** June 23, 2012: UK Premiere of experimental film The Creator by internationally-reknown artists Al & Al, 6:30pm at The Cornerhouse in Manchester. "A far cry from the dry, sanitised interpretations of a man once shunned but now revered as a master of modern mathematics, Al & Al have chosen to blend fact with fantastical speculation in this, the re-telling of that fateful day when Turing chose to end his own life.
Touching upon the myth of Snow White, Turing's doomed encounter with his lover Arnold Murray (only yards from the current Cornerhouse site), his subsequent experimentation with Jungian psychoanalysis and the nature of human physicality versus artificial conciousness, this is both a dream of loss and sweat-beaded nightmare."
Contact: Elisa Ruff (Media & Communications Officer at Cornerhouse)

*** June 23, 2012: Alan Turing Birthday Event in Manhattan: 2012 marks 100 years since the birth of Alan Turing. Saturday June 23rd is the actual centenary. That weekend also happens to be Pride Week in NYC. Given this line up of the Celestial Signs, The New York Consciousness Collective invites you to the Lower East side of Manhattan to let your freak flag fly in honor of Alan Turing. The event is free and features music from cognitive scientists and philosophers!

 

*** June 23, 2012: TURING100 at BLETCHLEY PARK is a one-day family event open to members of the public visiting on the historic day. Much of the day will revolve around Alan Turing's Imitation Game, hosted at Bletchley Park, the place where Alan Turing broke codes during the second world war, on the centenary of his birth.
There will be a Special Turing Centenary Competition for members of the public attempting to determine machine from human, and male from female.
Also - Turing's birthplace, The Colonnade Hotel London, is to award the 'Winning Machine' trophy. Best Adult Judge, trophy is awarded by University of Reading, with Best Child Judge to receiving a Raspberry Pi computer. Contacts: Huma Shah and Kevin Warwick, Email:
turing100atBletchleyPark[at]gmail[dot]com

*** June 23, 2012: A Turing Centenary Symposium, as part of the fifth North American Summer School of Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI
2012) , hosted at the University of Texas at Austin, June 18-22, 2012. The Symposium is hosting a variety of speakers to talk about the man Turing was and present contributions to the fields in which Turing was influential. Contact: Valeria de Paiva

*** June 23, 2012: Workshop Centenario Turing (Enigmaduino cracking contest), 9 - 12 at Dipartimento di Informatica, via Comelico 39, Milano.
An Enigma online cracking simulation implemented with the Arduino platform. "For the centenary of Turing (June 23, 2012) we decided to build something related to the Bletchley Park effort during WWII. We created a simplified Enigma machine using Arduino, we connected it to the Internet and now it's available online to be "cracked". More details. Also Milan Science Museum will demonstrate a real Enigma machine, 6.30pm the same day. Contact: Andrea Trentini

*** June 23, 2012: A Dorkboat up the Thames linked to Turing's Birthday.
From Anna Dumitriu: "There'll be a Dorkboat up the Thames and we are linking it in to Turing's Birthday when it docks at Watermans Gallery, book quick because the tickets sell out fast!" (actually, it's sold out)

*** June 23-24, 2012: TURING'S WORLDS, at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford - Turing centenary related BSHM/OUDCE Annual Residential Meeting, organised by the British Society for the History of Mathematics and the Oxford University Dept of Continuing Education. The weekend attempts a rounded view of a polymath, one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century, his life and his times. See the webpage for programme and list of distinguished speakers. Contact: Martin Campbell-Kelly

*** June 23-26, 2012: Alan Turing Centenary and Theory of Computation Summer School 2012 (CCA 2012), in Daejeon, South Korea. Hosted by the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS), South Korea. Poster.
Contact: Byunghan Kim

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Late item - apologies to Hannah from Oxford University Press, who asks:

1) Great to meet you in Cambridge last week. I know you have a ton of Turing related tasks to do, and that you are very busy, but would it be at all possible to add our Turing hub to one of your updates this week, and the competition to win a tour round Bletchley Park with Jack Copeland?
We'd very much appreciate it if you could.

www.oup.co.uk/sale/turing
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/editorial/browse/Competitions/OUP.jsp?compsrc=OUP

2) And while we're doing our duty by Jack, here's another request:

I'd be grateful if you would advertise Bletchley Park's Turing Education Day on the Turing Year page and anywhere else.
Many thanks!
Jack

The Turing Education Day, Bletchley Park, Saturday 30 June 2012
Everybody welcome!

Bletchley Park's Turing Education Day will celebrate Turing's Life and Legacy. A team of first rate  communicators from around the globe will assemble at Bletchley Park to explain Turing's work and ideas in a series of  short lectures, designed to make the work of a genius accessible to all.

The speakers are

Margaret Boden OBE
Lord Charles Brocket
Martin Campbell-Kelly
Jack Copeland
Baroness Susan Greenfield
John Harper
Jerry Roberts
Huma Shah
Kevin Warwick
Avi Wigderson

Full programme, information and tickets at www.turing2012.org.uk

3) And don't forget, Jack Copeland giving public lecture at the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester tonight:
http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/speakers/invited-list/11-speakers/53

It's free, but need to register before tickets all gone.
2012-6-23/9:07
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Dear Prof.S Barry Cooper :Thank you for a lot of news about ATY.I am a Prof.of Computer Science at Nankai University,Tianjin,China.I would like to tell you something about ATY in China.There is a magazine "Computer Education"edited by Tsinghua University Press in Beijing.It published a special issue on the 10th June.I have written a chinese long article on Tuling's life and work.Of course it have a lot of articles on computational thinking and computing education.
Liu Ruiting, 2012-6-23/9:17
Liu_ruiting@chip.cn

Dear All

Just a quick reminder of listings for the coming 2 weeks from the ATY Events Overview. Of course, it's been an amazing Alan Turing birthday weekend, with huge web and media coverage, and Turing trending on Twitter
- we hope you have managed to access some of the riches via web and other media coverage, or even by getting to some of the fantastic events. More info on events and developments of general interest later in the week, hopefully.

When the dust has settled, we will try to list what we have from the Turing Year to access into the future - books, articles, films, video and audio recordings, etc. I should mention that live streaming of the Turing Centenary Conference at Manchester Town Hall continues today with some real treats in store - see:
http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/conference/conference/livestream
http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/programme/programme

Also, must share this extract of a recent update from Patrick Sammon on his acclaimed film:
"With the Centenary of Alan Turing's birth on Saturday June 23rd, it's an ideal time to provide an update on the progress being made with CODEBREAKER. Distribution plans are moving forward for both the 81-minute version and 53-minute version of this drama-documentary. Watch a two-minute trailer.
http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=IvV7B&m=3fCaCfy3BKfUcqQ&b=cu6z2aRy7FOyAHGjeJXT1g

Anyway, here is the basic overview.

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Alan Turing Year events June 25 - July 7

June 21, 2012 to June, 2013: Codebreaker - Alan Turing's Life and Legacy:
An ambitious exhibit initiated by the Computer Conservation Society and taken forward by the Science Museum. Will feature:
The Pilot ACE computer - one of the star items embodying Turing's ideas for a universal programmable computer A special simulator of the Pilot ACE, made in 1950 to present the computer's capabilities to a wider public Other key exhibits including a piece of Comet jet fuselage wreckage analysed with the aid of Pilot ACE in 1954 following a series of crashes German military Enigma machines Rare remaining parts of the huge, revolutionary electromechanical 'Bombe'
machines devised by Turing during World War II to crack codes At the Science Museum, South Kensington, lasting 12 months and spanning the 23rd June 2012 Turing birthdate anniversary. Supported by Google. See the Science Museum initial announcement. Contact: Tilly Blyth or Simon Lavington

June 25-28, 2012: Twenty-Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2012) at the University of Dubrovnik in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Will include a plenary session June 25-27 commemorating Alan Turing's unique contribution to logic and computer science, on the occasion of his centenary, with talks by Robert L. Constable, E. Allen Emerson (co-winner of 2008 A. M. Turing Award), Joan Feigenbaum, and Leonid Levin. Deadlines: Titles and Short Abstracts - January 6, 2012; Extended Abstracts - January 13, 2012. Contact: Nachum Dershowitz (Programme Chair)

June 26-28, 2012: Alan Turing: From Computers to Life, a 3-day conference in the National University of Mexico (UNAM). Speakers include: Greg and Virginia Chaitin, Carlos Gershenson, Pedro Miramontes, Guillermo Morales, Faustino Sánchez, Ricardo Mansilla and Hector Zenil - PROGRAMME. The conference will be followed by a book based on the talks of the speakers in commemoration and celebration of Alan Turing's 100th anniversary.
Contact: Hector Zenil

June 26-29, 2012: IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity 2012 (CCC'12), in Porto, Portugal - organised in association with the 2012 Alan Turing Year. Contacts: Luis Antunes (Local Chair), Peter Bro Miltersen (Steering Cttee Chair).

June 26 - July 1, 2012: IJCAR 2012 - The 6th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, in Manchester. IJCAR forms a key part of the Alan Turing Year 2012, and follows immediately after the Turing Centenary conference Celebrating Turing - Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics.
Satellite events June 30-July 1. Contacts: Konstantin Korovin, Andrei Voronkov.

June 28-29, 2012: Simposio Turing 2012, a two day event held at the Department of Computer Science, CINVESTAV, Mexico. There will be eight lectures by three invited speakers (including Gregory Chaitin) and five members of the Department of Computer Science about Turing's ideas and legacy including: morphogenesis, mathematics of biology, computational complexity, mathematics, cryptography, chess and computer science.

June 29 - July 11, 2012: Summer School in Cognitive Sciences 2012 - Evolution and Function of Consciousness, in Montreal, Canada.
Commemorating the Centenary of the birth of Alan Turing (June 23 2012), with the theme: The causal role of consciousness in brain and behavioral evolution and function. Contact: Stevan Harnad

June 30, 2012: The Turing Education Day (TED) at Bletchley Park, incorporating the Alan Turing Memorial Lecture 2012. A team of first-rate expositors will explain the key aspects of Turing's many-sided work to a general audience. Topics covered will include codebreaking; the birth and early development of the computer and computer programming; artificial intelligence; artificial life; and the foundations and philosophy of mathematics. Contact: Jack Copeland

July 1, 2012 - January 4, 2013: An exhibition ALAN TURING - LEGACY FOR COMPUTING AND HUMANITY, at the Museum of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. Aims to present Alan Turing's major contributions to Computer Science and to civilization, through interactive installations which will highlight his main achievements to Science and to Society. Supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and the British General network in Brazil. Contact: Dante Barone

July 2-4, 2012: How Turing's Machine Changed the World, a Turing Centenary Conference to be held in Lyon.
Day 1 will include 6 public lectures (in French) for a broad audience, and end with the presentation of an honorary degree to Leslie Valiant.
Day 2 will comprise an international conference on "Turing's Heritage:
Logic, Computation & Complexity" (in English) with 6 invited talks.
And Day 3 will be a workshop on "complexity and finite models".
The conference is organized by the computer science department and computer science research laboratory at ENS de Lyon, and the Excellence initiative laboratory in Mathematics and Computer Science (MILYON).
Contact: Eric Fleury

July 2-6, 2012: 7th Conference on Computability, Complexity and Randomness (CCR 2012), and Workshop on Randomness, part of the Newton Institute programme Semantics and Syntax - A Legacy of Alan Turing, in Cambridge.
Submission deadline for abstracts: February 25, 2012. Contacts: Elvira Mayordomo and Wolfgang Merkle

 

July 2-6, 2012: JOINT 2012 International Association for Computing and Philosophy World Congress (IACAP 2012) and Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Annual Convention (AISB 2012), University of Birmingham. Contacts: John Barnden, Anthony Beavers, Manfred Kerber

July 3-5, 2012: ITiCSE 2012 - 17th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education , at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. ITiCSE 2012 is among the official Centenary events of the Alan Turing Year. All three Keynotes of ITiCSE 2012 will be in conjunction with the Turing Centenary:
Michael Rabin, a Turing Award winner, will talk on Never too early to
begin: Computer Sacience for school students.
Lenore Blum will talk on Alan Turing and the other theory of Computing.
David Harel will talk on Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person's Experience of Turing's Impact.
Download poster. Contacts: Tami Lapidot, Judith Gal-Ezer (Conference
Chairs)

July 3-7, 2012: The 7th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia (CSR 2012), at the University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN). This Alan Turing Year event will include a special Turing lecture given by Yuri Matiyasevich. Deadline for submissions: December 11, 2011. Contact: Juhani Karhum?ki

July 5, 2012: Mechanising the Mind: Turing and the Computable - a centenary lecture - Philip Welch delivers The Alan Turing Centenary Lecture at the 6th European Congress of Mathematics, 2-7 July, 2012, in Krakow, Poland

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Dear Liu Ruiting
Many thanks for this news. I'd be glad to get a link to an online version, if that is possible
Best, Barry
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, liurt wrote:

Dear Prof.S Barry Cooper :Thank you for a lot of news about ATY.I am a? Prof.of Computer Science at Nankai University,Tianjin,China.I would like to tell you something about ATY in China.There is a magazine "Computer Education"edited by Tsinghua University Press in Beijing.It published a special issue on the 10th June.I have written a chinese long article on Tuling's life and work.Of course it have a lot of articles on computational thinking and computing education.
Liu Ruiting,
Liu_ruiting@chip.cn

Dear Prof.S Barry Cooper :Thank you for your e-mail.they have a link:www.jsjjy.com,but it's only Chinese edition,not English edition.The attachments are my article and notice.You may not be understand Chinese character,but some Photo and English words can halp you have good sense.I think that you see what I mean.
Best wishes,
Liu Ruiting 2012-7-2/16:10

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Here is a small number of mainly time sensitive items. More towards the end of the week:

1) Carrie Buckle writes: Have you seen this Turingfortenner website that a cash management has created? It's pretty impressive!

http://www.cashmanagement.co.uk/turingfortenner.php

Here is their press release. Pretty good!

http://www.cashmanagement.co.uk/article.php?id=34

2) From Patrick Sammon: Thanks for linking to the e-newsletter. It was a bad link---it directed people directly back to the website. Here's the correct one:
http://archive.aweber.com/turingwebsite/GNouU/h/Update_on_Alan_Turing_Film.htm

3) The special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society on 'The Foundations of Computation, Physics and Mentality: the Turing Legacy'
is now available online, and print issues will be available shortly.

Details of the issue are available from here:
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2012/1971.xhtml

The issue is currently being advertised on the journal homepage:
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org

and a podcast interview with Samson Abramsky can be found here:

http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1971/3273/suppl/DC1

4) From John Barnden, news of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 starting
today: http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/

A particular event mentioned: "Intuition and Ingenuity: Alan Turing Centenary Exhibition", is an artistic exhibition that will be open at the conference site on each day in the West Wing Meeting Room. It takes its name from Turing's own writing on the subject of mathematical reasoning, and brings together a number of important artists from digital art pioneers to emerging contemporaries to investigate Turing's enduring influence on art and contemporary culture. This is an official Alan Turing Centenary Exhibition.
See also: http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/20.php

5) From Erinma Ochu: And one from us in Manchester... over 9500 people have now pledged sunflowers for the Turing's Sunflower experiment in 13 countries around the world: see www.turingsunflowers.com/grow/map

Watch the sunflower diaries videos as Turing Sunflower growers introduce their sunflowers...
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF8432F8A908BA542

We hope we might encourage a mathematican or two, three, five, eight...

6) From Sheridan Williams: I do hope you will be encouraging everyone to visit the the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) while at Bletchley Park. After all Colossus is there, together with a display of Pilot ACE material. http://tnmoc.org

Bear in mind that TNMOC is a separate organisation completely unfunded by Bletchley Park.

7) From Francisco J. Vico and Ernesto Pimentel in Spain, news of a concert today. Ernesto writes:

I am the Dean of the Higher Technical School of Computer Science at the University of Malaga. As you probably know by Francisco Vico, a colleague from our University, we are organizing the Opening Event of the Alan Turing Year ("Can machines be creative?") at the University of Malaga, which will be celebrated on the 2nd of July at 20:30. This event will be the first one of a collection of initiatives that will be organized during this year to commemorate the Centenary of the Life and Work of Alan Turing. The Opening Event will consist of the live transmission [www.cti.uma.es] of a classical contemporary music Concert, where the pieces have been composed by the Iamus [en.wikipedia.org] system.

And Vico provides the link http://www.cti.uma.es/melomics.html
and adds:

Thanks so much for your help, and I hope you'll enjoy the concert, it will be something worth seeing.

8) From  Miguel Villarroel Head of the Computer Science Graduate School of the Universidad Mayor de San Andres (PGI-UMSA), from La Paz, Bolivia, an item we tweeted - and here it is for interest on the list:

Friday, June 29, an special event to celebrate Turing's centenary. The PGI-UMSA is collaborating with the Universidad Católica Boliviana and the Bolivian Agency for the Development of the Information Society (ADSIB).

We are making an open invitation for this event through our web page:
http://www.pgi.umsa.bo

There is is a huge amount of fascinating news still to report. But all for now ...

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Dear Prof.S Barry Cooper :Thank you for your e-mail.the journal have a link:www.jsjjy.com,but it's only Chinese edition,not English edition.The attachment is a photo of the special issue by me.You may not be understand Chinese character,but some photo and English words can halp you have good sense.I think that you see what I mean.
Best wishes,
Liu Ruiting
2012-7-3/20:56