Turing's 100th Birthday Party

Turing's 100th Birthday Party celebrating his life and work will be held at King's College, Cambridge—Turing's beloved intellectual home.  

Speakers include leading broadcasters and experts on Turing, as well as members of the Turing family and others who knew him personally—pioneers of computing who worked alongside him, building and programming the first computers as well as investigating his mathematical theory of how living matter grows.  

Codebreaker Jerry Roberts, one of Turing's last surviving wartime colleagues from Station X, will give the King's College Turing Centenary Lecture followed by a movie about the Bletchley Park codebreakers.  

There will be lectures on Turing's contributions to—the Second World War, the development of our technological society, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, the theory and practice of computing, and the understanding of the human mind.  

Turing's 100th Birthday Party coincides with the major Turing Centenary congress in Cambridge, allowing guests to attend both events if they wish.  

Speakers

• Sir John Dermot Turing
• Turing's three nieces Inagh, Janet and  Shuna
• Jon Agar
• Margaret Boden, OBE
• Martin Campbell-Kelly
• Brian Carpenter
• Jack Copeland
• Daniel Dennett
• Robert Doran
• William Newman
• Teresa Numerico
• Brian Oakley
• Brian Randell
• Bernard Richards
• Jerry Roberts
• Simon Singh
• Doron Swade
• Stephen Wolfram
• Michael Woodger

Registration

Please register early, places are limited. To register, please visit: http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/registration

Transport and accommodation

For information about how to arrive in King's College, and places to stay, please visit: http://sites.google.com/site/turingace2012/hotels

Organisers

Turing 100th Birthday Party is being organised by Jack Copeland ([email protected]) and Mark Sprevak ([email protected]).

Read about Turing at www.the-turing-web-book.com.