Turing Lecture

BCS / IET Turing Lecture
The Turing Lecture is named in honour of Alan Turing, often considered the father of Computer Science
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Date 1998 (1998)
Location
Country United Kingdom
Website www.bcs.org/category/5826

The BCS / IET Turing Lecture is an annual lecture given by a noted speaker on the subject of Computer Science. The lecture is delivered in several different locations annually including: The Royal Institution in London, Cardiff University, The University of Manchester, Belfast City Hall and the University of Glasgow.[1][2]

The lecture is named in honour of Alan Turing, and is co-hosted by the British Computer Society (BCS) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The event should not be confused with the Turing Award lecture organised by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[3] Recent Turing lectures are available as a live webcast and archived online.

Turing lectures

Turing lecturers have included:

  • 2018: Andy Harter, Innovation and technology – art or science?[4]
  • 2017: Guruduth Banavar, Beneficial AI for the Advancement of Humankind[5]
  • 2016: Robert Schukai, The Internet of Me: It's all about my screens
  • 2015: Robert Pepper, The Internet Paradox: How bottom-up beat(s) command and control[6]
  • 2014: Bernard S. Meyerson, Beyond silicon: Cognition and much, much more
  • 2013: Suranga Chandratillake, What they didn't teach me: building a technology company and taking it to market
  • 2012: Ray Dolan,[7] From cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience – a hidden legacy of Alan Turing
  • 2011: Donald Knuth, An Evening with Donald Knuth – All Questions Answered.
  • 2010: Christopher Bishop. Embracing Uncertainty: the new machine intelligence
  • 2009: J. Michael Brady,[8] Information Engineering and its Future
  • 2008: James Martin, Target Earth and the meaning of the 21st century
  • 2007: Grady Booch, The Promise, the Limits and the Beauty of Software
  • 2006: Chris Mairs,[9] Lifestyle access for the disabled
  • 2005: Fred Brooks, Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design
  • 2004: Fred Piper, Cyberspace Security, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
  • 2003: Carol Kovac, Computing in the Age of the Genome
  • 2002: Mark Welland, Smaller, faster, better – but is it nanotechnology?
  • 2001: Nick Donofrio, Technology, Innovation and the New Economy
  • 2000: Brian Randell, Facing up to Faults
  • 1999: Samson Abramsky From Computation to Interaction – Towards a Science of Information

References

  1. ↑ "Past BCS & IET Turing Lectures". London: British Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2015-04-09.
  2. ↑ "Previous IET and BCS Turing Lectures". London: Institution of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06.
  3. ↑ Milner, Robin (1993). "Elements of interaction: Turing award lecture". Communications of the ACM. 36: 78–89. doi:10.1145/151233.151240.
  4. ↑ "BCS/IET Turing Lecture 2018".
  5. ↑ London Turing Lecture 2017 on YouTube, British Computer Society
  6. ↑ The IET & BCS Turing Lecture 2015: The Internet Paradox on YouTube
  7. ↑ Anon (2015). DOLAN, Prof. Raymond Joseph. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  8. ↑ "Professor Sir Michael Brady". London: British Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2016-03-29.
  9. ↑ Anon (2015). MAIRS, Christopher John. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
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