TURING EDUCATION DAY at Bletchley Park

Part of the international Alan Turing Year celebrations Turing Education Day at Bletchley Park 30 June 2012 has an exceptional programme of Turing-related talks:

PROGRAMME

10.00-10.30 OPENING CEREMONY IN THE GRAND BALLROOM

Lord Charles Brocket and Sir John Dermot Turing

10.30-11.10 TURING AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE

'Turing's Computational Explorations of Biology'   Margaret Boden OBE, FBA

11.10-11.40 Tea, coffee, biscuits

11.40-12.20 TURING AND THE BRAIN

'Does Brainpower Go Beyond Computer Power?'   Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE

12.20-1.00 Lunch

1.00-2.20 TURING AND THE COMPUTER

1.00-1.40 'Aces High: Building Turing's Universal Machine'   Martin Campbell-Kelly

1.40-2.20 'Computation, Cryptography and the Limits of Human Knowledge: Turing's Legacy'   Avi Wigderson

2.20-4.10 TURING AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

2.20-3.00 'Breaking the German Codes at Bletchley Park'   Jack Copeland

3.00-3.30 Tea, coffee, biscuits

3.30-4.10 'Rebuilding Turing's Machines: Bombe and Delilah'   John Harper

4.10-5.30 TURING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

A spectacular show by Kevin Warwick and Huma Shah with a dazzling

 cast of cyber-entities

5.30 Bar opens

5.30-6.30 THE TURING TOUR

Choice of a guided tour of Bletchley Park and the Turing Exhibition or a demonstration of the rebuilds of Turing's Bombe and Delilah

6.30-7.30 ANNUAL TURING LECTURE

'Tunny: Hitler's Most Secret Code'   Captain Jerry Roberts

7.30 DINNER

Dine with the day's speakers in Bletchley Park Mansion