Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures

By Oxford University

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Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June, 1912 - exactly one hundred years before this weekend meeting which celebrates his life and achievements. Although most well-known for his work at Bletchley Park in the pioneering days which saw the birth of modern practical computing; Turing had achieved fame well before the second world war, with a seminal account of theoretical computation and his solution to the Entscheidungs problem. An Olympic-class marathon runner, whose refusal to conform to the narrow sexual standards of the day led to persecution and an early death - Turing did fundamental research on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programming and even Mathematical Biology. This weekend attempts a rounded view of a polymath, one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century, his life and his times.

Episode Date
Morphogenesis Then and Now
Oct 22, 2012
Congruent Worlds: Turing, Lovelace and Babbage
Oct 22, 2012
What Alan Turing might have discovered
Oct 22, 2012
Turing in the History of Software
Oct 22, 2012
Turing in the age of the Internet and the quantum computer
Oct 22, 2012
Decidability: The Entscheidungs problem
Oct 22, 2012
Turing and the Public Consciousness: Turing 2.0(12)
Oct 22, 2012
Welcome Address
Oct 22, 2012