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Turing Conference
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Computer Studies and Philosophy,
University of Leeds,
LEEDS, LS2 9JT
Friday, 23rd March 1990
TURING 1990 - FINAL REMINDER
I would be very grateful if you could bring this notice to the
attention of the relevant academic staff and postgraduates in your
department, as soon as possible. It concerns a major conference which is
taking place in Sussex University the week after next (starting on Tuesday
3rd April), and for which a limited number of places are still available.
Because of the uniqueness of the Conference, and its magnificent range of
speakers, we are taking the unusual step of providing a last-minute
"reminder" for anyone who may have either failed to see our previous
notices, or forgotten to register in time. We are keen to provide a final
opportunity for British academics and postgraduates who are interested in
computers and their philosophical significance, since it is very unlikely
that such an impressive list of speakers in this subject area will be
assembled on this side of the Atlantic for a long time to come (see below).
Yours sincerely, and with many thanks,
Peter Millican
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INVITED GUEST SPEAKERS
ANDREW HODGES, author of the much-acclaimed biography Alan Turing: the
Enigma of Intelligence, will give the opening address at the Conference.
DONALD MICHIE and ROBIN GANDY, both of whom knew Turing personally, will
present the first and last major papers. Gandy is a prominent mathematical
logician, while Michie is very well known in artificial intelligence
circles, as well as being chief scientist at Glasgow's Turing Institute.
The two other invited British speakers are CHRISTOPHER PEACOCKE, Waynflete
Professor of Philosophy at Oxford, and J.R. LUCAS, who will be speaking on
the topic of his famous and controversial paper "Minds, Machines and Godel"
in front of an audience which will include some of his fiercest critics!
One of these, DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER (Indiana), achieved fame with his Pulitzer
Prize winning book Godel, Escher, Bach, which did much to provoke general
interest in artificial intelligence. Other major American visitors include
PAUL CHURCHLAND (California), perhaps the best known connectionist opponent
of folk-psychology; JOSEPH FORD (Georgia), a prominent advocate of the new
and exciting theory of chaos; CLARK GLYMOUR (Carnegie-Mellon), a notable
philosopher of science, and last, but certainly not least, HERBERT SIMON
(Carnegie-Mellon), one of the founding fathers of the science of artificial
intelligence, and a Nobel laureate in 1978.
OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
Authors of the other 18 contributions include many well-known computer
scientists, artificial intelligence researchers, and philosophers from
America, Australia and Europe as well as from Britain. Their names, and
the titles of their papers, are listed in the programme which follows.
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TURING 1990 - LATE REGISTRATION INFORMATION
VENUE
The Conference takes place at the University of Sussex, Falmer, which is
about 4 miles from Brighton (the frequent trains take about 8 minutes, and
the campus is barely 100 yards from Falmer station). Registration is from
11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday 3rd April at NORWICH HOUSE, which is where
most delegates will be accommodated. Those arriving late should ask the
porter at Norwich House for registration materials unless they arrive after
he has gone off duty, in which case registration materials, keys etc. can
be collected from the permanent duty porter at the adjacent YORK HOUSE.
FIRST AND LAST AFTERNOONS
The Conference opens at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, with a lecture by Andrew Hodges
in ARTS A2. This will be followed by coffee at 3.00, and a paper by Donald
Michie (also in Arts A2) at 3.30. Dinner is from 5.00 until 6.30 in the
Refectory, Level 2, with a wine reception in the Grapevine Bar (Refectory
building) from 6.00 until 8.00, when Clark Glymour will speak in Arts A2.
On Friday 6th April, Lunch is from 12.00 p.m. until 2.00, when Robin Gandy
will give the closing speech. Coffee at 3.30 marks the official end of the
Conference, although at 4.00 Douglas Hofstadter will give an additional
open lecture entitled "Hiroshima Ma Mignonne". Dinner on Friday evening is
available for those who require it (at a cost of #6.00).
REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION COSTS
For members of the Mind Association or the Aristotelian Society, and also
subscribers to Analysis or Philosophical Quarterly, the registration fee is
only #30, thanks to the generous support which we are receiving from these
bodies. The registration fee for students is likewise #30. For other
academics the fee is #50, while for non-academics the fee is #80.
Full board including bed, breakfast and all meals (with the exception of
Thursday evening) from Dinner on Tuesday to Lunch on Friday, costs #84.
For those wanting these meals alone (and not bed and breakfast), the cost
is #33. On Thursday evening the Conference Banquet takes place at the
Royal Pavilion in Brighton (for which we charge only the marginal cost of
#25), but for those not attending the Banquet, dinner is available in the
University at a cost of #6. Please note that places at the Banquet are
strictly limited, and will be filled on a first come-first served basis.
HOW TO REGISTER LATE
Those who wish to book accommodation for the Conference should ring Judith
Dennison at Sussex University (0273-678379) immediately, and if she is not
available, should leave on her answerphone full details of their meal and
accommodation requirements, together with A TELEPHONE NUMBER AT WHICH THEY
CAN BE CONTACTED. Those who telephone by 2.00 p.m. ON FRIDAY 30th MARCH
can probably be guaranteed accommodation within the University (though not
necessarily in Norwich House), and you are asked to meet this deadline if
at all possible (assuming that you are able to catch the Friday postal
collection, please also send your cheque and written requirements, by first
class mail, to the address below). During the following weekend Andy Clark
(0273-722942) will be able to provide some information on the number of
places remaining, and on Monday Judith Dennison will do her best to fit in
those who have left their name in the meantime. Those who arrive on
Tuesday without having booked do so, of course, at their own risk!
CHEQUES AND WRITTEN REQUIREMENTS TO: Judith Dennison, School of Cognitive
and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QN (please use
first class post, and do not include cheques if posted after 30th March).
PJRM/23rd March 1990
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TURING 1990 COLLOQUIUM
At the University of Sussex, Brighton, England
3rd - 6th April 1990
PROGRAMME OF SPEAKERS AND GENERAL INFORMATION
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INVITED SPEAKERS
Paul CHURCHLAND (Philosophy, University of California at San Diego)
FURTHER THOUGHTS ON LEARNING AND CONCEPTUAL CHANGE
Joseph FORD (Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)
CHAOS : ITS PAST, ITS PRESENT, BUT MOSTLY ITS FUTURE
Robin GANDY (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)
HUMAN VERSUS MECHANICAL INTELLIGENCE
Clark GLYMOUR (Philosophy, Carnegie-Mellon)
COMPUTABILITY, CONCEPTUAL REVOLUTIONS AND THE LOGIC OF DISCOVERY
Andrew HODGES (Oxford, author of "Alan Turing: the enigma of intelligence")
BACK TO THE FUTURE : ALAN TURING IN 1950
Douglas HOFSTADTER (Computer Science, Indiana)
MENTAL FLUIDITY AND CREATIVITY
J.R. LUCAS (Merton College, Oxford)
MINDS, MACHINES AND GODEL : A RETROSPECT
Donald MICHIE (Turing Institute, Glasgow)
MACHINE INTELLIGENCE - TURING AND AFTER
Christopher PEACOCKE (Magdalen College, Oxford)
PHILOSOPHICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF CONCEPTS
Herbert SIMON (Computer Science and Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon)
MACHINE AS MIND
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OTHER SPEAKERS
Most of the papers to be given at the Colloquium are interdisciplinary, and
should hold considerable interest for those working in any area of Cognitive
Science or related disciplines. However the papers below will be presented
in paired parallel sessions, which have been arranged as far as possible to
minimise clashes of subject area, so that those who have predominantly
formal interests, for example, will be able to attend all of the papers
which are most relevant to their work, and a similar point applies for those
with mainly philosophical, psychological, or purely computational interests.
Jonathan Cohen (The Queen's College, Oxford)
"Does Belief Exist?"
Mario Compiani (ENIDATA, Bologna, Italy)
"Remarks on the Paradigms of Connectionism"
Martin Davies (Philosophy, Birkbeck College, London)
"Facing up to Eliminativism"
Chris Fields (Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico)
"Measurement and Computational Description"
Robert French (Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana)
"Subcognition and the Limits of the Turing Test"
Beatrice de Gelder (Psychology and Philosophy, Tilburg, Netherlands)
"Cognitive Science is Philosophy of Science Writ Small"
Peter Mott (Computer Studies and Philosophy, Leeds)
"A Grammar Based Approach to Commonsense Reasoning"
Aaron Sloman (Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Sussex)
"Beyond Turing Equivalence"
Antony Galton (Computer Science, Exeter)
"The Church-Turing Thesis: its Nature and Status"
Ajit Narayanan (Computer Science, Exeter)
"The Intentional Stance and the Imitation Game"
Jon Oberlander and Peter Dayan (Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh)
"Altered States and Virtual Beliefs"
Philip Pettit and Frank Jackson (Social Sciences Research, ANU, Canberra)
"Causation in the Philosophy of Mind"
Ian Pratt (Computer Science, Manchester)
"Encoding Psychological Knowledge"
Joop Schopman and Aziz Shawky (Philosophy, Utrecht, Netherlands)
"Remarks on the Impact of Connectionism on our Thinking about Concepts"
Murray Shanahan (Computing, Imperial College London)
"Folk Psychology and Naive Physics"
Iain Stewart (Computing Laboratory, Newcastle)
"The Demise of the Turing Machine in Complexity Theory"
Chris Thornton (Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh)
"Why Concept Learning is a Good Idea"
Blay Whitby (Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Sussex)
"The Turing Test: AI's Biggest Blind Alley?"
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TURING 1990 COLLOQUIUM
At the University of Sussex, Brighton, England
3rd - 6th April 1990
This Conference commemorates the 40th anniversary of the publication in Mind
of Alan Turing's influential paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence".
It is hosted by the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the
University of Sussex and held under the auspices of the Mind Association.
Additional support has been received from the Analysis Committee, the
Aristotelian Society, The British Logic Colloquium, The International Union
of History and Philosophy of Science, POPLOG, Philosophical Quarterly, and
the SERC Logic for IT Initiative.
The aim of the Conference is to draw together people working in Philosophy,
Logic, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and
related fields, in order to celebrate the intellectual and technological
developments which owe so much to Turing's seminal thought. Papers will be
presented on the following themes: Alan Turing and the emergence of
Artificial Intelligence, Logic and the Theory of Computation, The Church-
Turing Thesis, The Turing Test, Connectionism, Mind and Content, Philosophy
and Methodology of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Invited
talks will be given by Paul Churchland, Joseph Ford, Robin Gandy, Clark
Glymour, Andrew Hodges, Douglas Hofstadter, J.R. Lucas, Donald Michie,
Christopher Peacocke and Herbert Simon, and there are many other prominent
contributors, whose names and papers are listed above.
The conference will start after lunch on Tuesday 3rd April 1990, and it
will end on Friday 6th April after tea. ANYONE WISHING TO REGISTER FOR
THIS CONFERENCE SHOULD SEE THE LATE REGISTRATION INFORMATION ABOVE.
Conference Organizing Committee
Andy Clark (Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Sussex University)
David Holdcroft (Philosophy, Leeds University)
Peter Millican (Computer Studies and Philosophy, Leeds University)
Steve Torrance (Information Systems, Middlesex Polytechnic)
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