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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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fields  of  Artificial Intelligence,  Cognitive  Science,  Computer Science,
Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy or Psychology, in Britain  or  abroad, and to
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