ICE-TCS Turing Centenary Events: Preliminary Schedule

The year 2012 is the Alan Turing Year, a centenary celebration of the life and work of Alan Turing, who was, without doubt, one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century.

With the events listed below, ICE-TCS hopes to offer a small contribution to the celebrations for the life and work of Alan Turing. The Turing Year events at Reykjavik University are organized in collaboration with the School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, the Icelandic Mathematical Society, CADIA and IIIM.

• 12 January 2012: Talk by Luca Aceto on Alan Turing's work on computability and the universal computer. (Joint with the Icelandic Mathematical Society.) The talk will be held in room M101 at Reykjavik University from 16:30 till 17:30.
  The poster for the talk is here and further information is available here.
  The audio of the talk is here in .avi format.
• 17 February 2012: Talk by Ýmir Vigfússon on Alan Turing's code-breaking work. (Joint with the Icelandic Mathematical Society.) The talk will be held in room M101 at Reykjavik University from 17:15 till 18:15. (Note the new time!)
  The poster for the talk is here.
  The audio of the talk is here in .avi format.
• 15 March 2012: (Note the new date!) Talk by Bjarni V. Halldórsson on Alan Turing's work on mathematical biology. (Joint with the Icelandic Mathematical Society.) The talk will be held in room M101 at Reykjavik University from 16:30 till 17:30.
  The poster for the talk is here.
  The audio of the talk is here in .avi format.
  The slides for the talk are here in .pdf format.
• 29 March 2012: (Note the new date!) Talk by Magnús M. Halldórsson entitled The million dollar question: P vs. NP, and the legacy of Turing. (Joint with the Icelandic Mathematical Society.)
• 12 April 2012: Talk by Yngvi Björnsson and Kristinn R. Thórisson entitled Alan Turing's Contributions to Artificial Intelligence: Can Machines Think?. The talk will be held in room M101 at Reykjavik University from 16:30 till 17:30. (This event in the Alan Turing Centenary programme is organized in collaboration with CADIA and IIIM.)
  The poster for the talk is here.
  The audio of the talk is here in .avi format.
  Alan Turing was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence and took an early interest in the question as to whether it is possible for machinery to show intelligent behaviour. In this talk, Yngvi Björnsson and Kristinn R. Thórisson will summarize Alan Turing's contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, including the famous Turing Test designed for verifying computers' ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour.
• 6 September 2012: Screening of the drama documentary film Codebreaker (Icelandic premiere). The two screenings will take place at 8pm and at 9.45pm in room M1.01 at Reykjavik University. The tickets for the event will be sold at 500 ISK each to cover the cost of the rights to screen the movie publicly.
  If you are interested in purchasing tickets for either of the two screenings of the movie, please contact:
  Matteo Cimini: matteo@ru.is, telephone: 778 7638, or
  Eugen Goriac: egoriac10@ru.is, telephone: 774 8308.
• Monday, 17 December 2012: The final event of the ICE-TCS Alan Turing Year will be held today at 2pm in room M1.01 at Reykjavik University. The general theme for the event will be The Future of Computing. The programme will consist of five-minute contributions by several members of the School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University followed up by a question-and-answer session with the audience. Attendance is free to everyone.

Further details on these events, as well as further events that will take place during the year 2012, will be posted on this page regularly.