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Turing Lecture

From cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience - a hidden legacy of Alan Turing

February 2012

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Free to attend

This lecture is free to attend for members and non-members of the IET and BCS

Where and when

IET London : Savoy Place
Tuesday 21 February 2012

University of Cardiff
Thursday 23 February 2012

University of Manchester
Tuesday 28 February 2012

University of Edinburgh
Wednesday 29 February 2012

Certificate of attendance

Lecture attendees may request a certificate of attendance for use as evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) evidence.

About the lecture

2012 is a very special year – marking 100 years since the birth of Alan Turing.

To celebrate this special year, IET have worked with the BCS to deliver the free to attend, IET / BCS Turing Lecture 2012.

The lecture speaker, Professor Ray Dolan, Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL at the IET / BCS Turing Lecture 2012 took to the stage to discuss the challenges Turing faced in relation to the Enigma, exploring Turing’s strongly Bayesian problem solving approaches and looking at the similarities with the problems the brain faces in making sense of its environment.

With international acclaim...

The speaker is Ray Dolan is Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, at UCL

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Watch the live webcast

The Turing Lecture on 21 February was streamed live as a webcast and is available to view on the lecture webcast page.

2012 – join the world in celebrating Turing’s centenary!

2012 is a special year – marking 100 years since the birth of Alan Turing, the Manchester computer pioneer, and explorer of the human mind.

"The 'computable' numbers may be described briefly as the real numbers whose expressions as a decimal are calculable by finite means... a number is computable if its decimal can be written down by a machine." Alan Turing

Bringing mathematical logic to bear on the problem of mind and matter turned out to be Alan Turing's crucial innovation, as did his knowledge of the classical analysis of the real continuum… discover how Turing’s work has paved the way for the brilliant computing minds of today as Prof Ray Dolan takes to the stage to discuss ‘From cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience - a hidden legacy of Alan Turing’.

This series of lectures have taken place on Tuesday 21 February 2012. IET London: Savoy Place, on Thursday 23 February 2012 at the University of Cardiff, on Tuesday 28 February 2012 at the University of Manchester and on Wednesday 29 February 2012 at the University of Edinburgh.

This year, this special lecture attracted sponsorship support from IBM, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.

The lecture series was well received by all and plans are already underway for the IET / BCS Turing Lecture 2012.

2012 Turing Lecture attendee:

‘Well done everyone involved, and thanks for a great speaker/event/evening’.

Help celebrate Alan Turing’s centenary year with a pub quiz or by donating old computers to the Turing Trust!

The Turing Trust was established by James Turing, Alan Turing’s great nephew, in honour of Alan, to expand computer literacy in impoverished communities in Ghana in 2009. The trust works to establish and fund schooling programs in Ghana. As we progress into the centenary year of his birth in 1912, the Turing Trust is hoping to expand its commitment to teaching employable skills and computer literacy by holding pub quizzes and via donations.

For further details please visit The Turing Trust.