[Turing Day] - Last Call for Participation

[Christof Teuscher]

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SECOND AND LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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** Turing Day **
Computing science 90 years from the birth of Alan M. Turing. 

Friday, June 28, 2002

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
http://lslwww.epfl.ch/turingday

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Purpose: 
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Alan Mathison Turing, born on June 23, 1912, is considered
one of the most creative thinkers of the 20th century. His 
interests, from computing to the mind through information 
science and biology, span many of the emerging themes of the 
21st century.

On June 28, 2002, we commemorate the 90th anniversary of Alan 
Mathison Turing's birthday in the form of a one-day workshop 
held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. 
The goal of this special day is to remember Alan Turing and to 
revisit his contributions to computing science. The workshop 
will consist of a series of invited talks given by 
internationally-renowned experts in the field.


Invited Speakers:
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B. Jack Copeland 
 - "Artificial Intelligence and the Turing Test"

Martin Davis 
 - "The Church-Turing Thesis: Has it been Superseded?"

Andrew Hodges 
 - "What would Alan Turing have done after 1954?"

Douglas R. Hofstadter 
 - "The Strange Loop -- from Epimenides to Cantor to Russell 
    to Richard to Goedel to Turing to Tarski to von Neumann 
    to Crick and Watson"

Tony Sale 
 - "What did Turing do at Bletchley Park?"

Jonathan Swinton 
 - "Watching the Daisies Grow: Turing and Fibonacci
    Phyllotaxis"

Gianluca Tempesti 
 - "The Turing Machine Redux: A Bio-Inspired Implementation"

Christof Teuscher 
 - "Connectionism, Turing, and the Brain"


Special Events:
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o Display and demonstration of an original Enigma machine
o Exhibition of historical computers (Bolo's Computer Museum)
o Demonstration of Turing's neural networks on the BioWall
o Demonstration of a self-replicating universal Turing machine


For up-to-date information and registration, consult the 
Turing Day web-site: http://lslwww.epfl.ch/turingday

We are looking forward to seeing you in beautiful Lausanne!

Sincerely,
- Christof Teuscher


 
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Christof Teuscher 
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
christof at teuscher.ch
http://www.teuscher.ch/christof
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