June 23, 2012 marks the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, the "father" of computer science and artificial intelligence, whose ideas formalized our notion of computation and algorithms. He also created designs for some of the first computers and devised techniques for breaking the Enigma ciphers used by the Germans during WWII.

People are celebrating Turing's 100th birthday around the world: http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/

We would like to invite you to attend turing100@csc.uvic.ca on Friday, June 22 and spend the day talking about Turing's tremendous accomplishments!

Schedule of Events for Friday, June 22:

9:00-9:45	The Life of Alan Turing	Daniel German
9:45-11:00	Turing's Seminal 1936 Paper	John Ellis
11:00-12:00	The history of the Entscheidungsproblem, from Llull to Turing and beyond	Bruce Kapron
12:00 -1:30	Pizza Lunch, Turing Art, Music & Wumpus World	CS Grad Students
1:30-2:30	The Turing Test and Searle's "Chinese Room"	Maarten van Emden
2:30-3:30	The Enigma machine and Turing's Cryptoanalysis	Venkatesh Srinivasan
3:30-4:00	Birthday cake, coffee and tea with special guest who worked with Turing at Bletchley Park	Olive Bailey
4:00-6:00	"Breaking the Code" - Acclaimed film about Turing's life	ECS 104

Email turing100@csc.uvic.ca for more details.

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