Alan Mathison Turing 2004: A celebration of his life and achievements
Manchester University, 5 June, 2004
Alan Turing is well known for his Turing test in artificial intelligence, but the full range of his contributions in a wide variety of disparate disciplines is perhaps not so well appreciated. Hence the impetus for this conference - the only one in the UK in 2004 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Turing's death - to attempt to provide an overview that encompassed this remarkable man's pioneering work in several diverse fields.
The conference comprised five in-depth presentations covering Turing's
- life and work (Dr Andrew Hodges)
and Turing's leading role in the following key areas:
- logic (Professor Barry Cooper);
- computing (Dr David Anderson);
- artificial intelligence (Professor B. Jack Copeland), and
- biology (in particular morphogenesis) (Dr Jonathan Swinton).
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