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Turing Lecture

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The BCS / IET Turing Lecture is an annual lecture given by a noted speaker on the subject of Computer Science. [1]

33 relations: Alan Turing, Andy Harter, Artificial intelligence, Association for Computing Machinery, Belfast, Belfast City Hall, Brian Randell, British Computer Society, Cardiff, Cardiff University, Christopher Bishop, Computer science, Donald Knuth, Fred Brooks, Glasgow, Grady Booch, Institution of Engineering and Technology, J. Michael Brady, James Martin (author), London, Manchester, Mark Welland, Nick Donofrio, Oxford University Press, Robert Pepper, Royal Institution, Samson Abramsky, Suranga Chandratillake, Turing Award, United Kingdom, University of Glasgow, University of Manchester, Webcast.

Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.

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Andy Harter

Andrew Charles Harter (born 1961 in Yorkshire, England) is a British computer scientist, best known as the founder and CEO of RealVNC.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an international learned society for computing.

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Belfast

Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.

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Belfast City Hall

Belfast City Hall (Halla na Cathrach Bhéal Feirste; Ulster-Scots: Bilfawst Citie Haw) is the civic building of Belfast City Council located in Donegall Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Brian Randell

Brian Randell (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK He specialises in research into software fault tolerance and dependability, and is a noted authority on the early pre-1950 history of computers.

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British Computer Society

Sir Maurice Wilkes served as first President of BCS in 1957. The British Computer Society (BCS) is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology, both in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Cardiff University

Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.

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Christopher Bishop

Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is the Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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Donald Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University.

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Fred Brooks

Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Grady Booch

Grady Booch (born February 27, 1955) is an American software engineer, best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language (UML) with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.

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Institution of Engineering and Technology

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution.

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J. Michael Brady

(John) Michael Brady (born 30 April 1945) FRS One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is an Emeritus professor of Oncological Imaging at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford.

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James Martin (author)

James Martin (19 October 1933 – 24 June 2013) was a British Information Technology consultant and author, known for his work on information engineering.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Mark Welland

Sir Mark Edward Welland, (born 18 October 1955) is professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge and head of the Nanoscience Centre.

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Nick Donofrio

Nicholas M. Donofrio (born 1945) was the Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation until 2008.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Robert Pepper

Robert M. Pepper Ph.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or Ri) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.

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Samson Abramsky

Samson Abramsky FRS, FRSE (born 12 March 1953) is a computer scientist who holds the Christopher Strachey Professorship at the Department of Computer Science (formerly the Computing Laboratory), University of Oxford.

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Suranga Chandratillake

Suranga Chandratillake OBE (born October 1977 in Kandy, Sri Lanka) was the founder and CEO of blinkx, the San Francisco-based video search and advertising company which later became RhythmOne.

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Turing Award

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to an individual selected for contributions "of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field".

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (Oilthigh Ghlaschu; Universitas Glasguensis; abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.

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Webcast

A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Lecture

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