Turing in Context II

In the spirit of Alan Turing's interdisciplinary research, an international meeting will be held at the Royal Flemish Academy for the Sciences and Arts, exploring recent research into the many directions brought together in his work.

This meeting is the second Turing in Context event during the 2012 Turing centennial. The first was held at King's College, Cambridge, 18-19 February 2012. It was an outreach event for the general academic public with invited speakers only. Turing in Context II is a research meeting meant for experts in the fields touched by Turing's contributions to science.

Topics of the meeting include but are not restricted to:

• history and theory of symbolic and physical machines
• human and artificial intelligence
• logic, computability and complexity

Keynotes:

S. Barry Cooper, "Turing Machines, Embodied Information, and Higher Type Computability"
Leo Corry, Turing and the Computational Tradition in Pure Mathematics: The Case of the Riemann Zeta-Function
Daniel Dennett, "Turing's gradualist vision: making minds from proto-minds"
Marie Hicks, The Imitation Game Writ Large: Thinking about gender, labor, and sexuality in making machines useful.
Maurice Margenstern, Universality everywhere and beyond, an epic of computer science
Elvira Mayordomo, From Computability to Information Theory
Alexandra Shlapentokh, Definability and decidability over function fields of positive characteristic
Rineke Verbrugge, Cognitive systems in interaction

Programme committee:

Bill Aspray (University of Texas)
Tony Beavers (University of Evansville)
Liesbeth De Mol (Ghent University)
Luc De Raedt (Leuven University)
Pablo Gervas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Antonina Kolokolova (University of Toronto)
Benedikt Loewe (University of Amsterdam)
David McCarty (Indiana University Bloomington)
Erik Myin (Antwerp University)
Giuseppe Primiero (Ghent University)
Wilfried Sieg (Carnegie Mellon University)
Mariya Soskova (Sofia University)
Jean-Paul van Bendegem (Free University of Brussels)
Bart van Kerkhove (Hasselt University)

Organizing committee:
Liesbeth De Mol, Benedikt Loewe, Giuseppe Primiero, Jean-Paul van
Bendegem, Dagmar Provijn, Bart van Kerckhove