Prestigious Speaker for Annual Turing Lecture

 

A Lecture followed by Dinner at The Mansion, Bletchley Park on the Evening of Thursday 10 July 2008.

 

For many years, Alan Turing remained a completely mysterious figure in the origin of modern computing because of the secrecy concerning his wartime work.  Relaxation of that secrecy has allowed many questions to be answered, but new problems have opened up.

Dr Hodges will discuss some of the unresolved issues which have come to the forefront as historians of science strive to understand the development of Turing’s thought.  These questions go to the heart of questions about Artificial Intelligence, and are as fresh and lively and awkward today as Alan Turing was to his contemporaries.

About the Speaker
Dr Andrew Hodges is a tutor in Mathematics and Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford.

He is best known for his biography ‘Alan Turing: The Enigma’ which appeared in 1983, and for numerous further articles on Turing’s life and work.

Venue: The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB. For directions, see www.bletchleypark.org.uk.

Times: Reception from 6:00 pm, the Lecture from 6:30 pm, followed by Dinner at 8:00 pm.

Payment £52 per person (no concessions)
[Places must be booked and paid for by 27 June 2008]
Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Bletchley Park Trust Ltd’ to Victoria Pether, The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB.
Please indicate how many tickets you require and any special dietary requirements