Turing100
TURING100 - celebrating 20th century mathematician Alan Turing through a special Turing Test contest in his centenary year, 2012.
Turing100 is part of the Alan Turing Year 2012:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/
Turing100 team:
Professor Kevin Warwick - member of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (TCAC)
Huma Shah - member of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (TCAC)
Ian Bland
Chris Chapman
Marc Allen
Turing100 will stage a Turing Test contest at Bletchley Park, the place
where Alan Turing broke codes during the second world war, on the centenary of
his birth, Saturday 23rd June, 2012.
Over 150 Turing tests, 30
judges and 5 elite
developers' machines
assembled as part of the
international
Alan Turing centenary celebrations
in the
University of Reading's
Turing test contest (granted
London 2012 Inspire Mark for
Education) on
Turing's 100th birthday:
Saturday 23
June 2012 in
the Billiard Room at Bletchley
Park.
Awards will be made at
the end of the contest:
Winning Machine trophy from Turing’s
birthplace,
The Colonnade Hotel London
Best adult judge prize
awarded by Reading
University
Best child judge (10 -
17) will receive a
Raspberry Pi computer
Other activities
for visitors include
taking the visual Turing
test, and a computer
themed infolab in the
Drawing Room of the
mansion:
-
Price Waterhouse
Coopers –
Cybercrime, Threats
and Vulnerabilities
Management UK
-
YOUSRC* – a great
starting point for
children to have fun
learning computer
programming
* Dell are kindly
sponsoring laptops
for YOUSRC
demonstration.
-
Raspberry Pi - the
inexpensive and
programmable
computer aimed at
children
-
Artificial Solutions
– Virtual
Assistants, Making
Technology Think
-
Daden Ltd. – Virtual
Worlds and
Chatbot-based
Solutions
-
Elzware Conversation
Systems – Where
Humanity Meets
Technology
-
Women In Technology
– Information portal
for female
technologists
*
If you are a school you
can take part in
London2012’s official
education programme, Get
Set. Find out more here:
http://getset.london2012.com/en/home
Get started and play
with YouSRC here:
http://www.yousrc.com/index.asp?LEFTBUT=FIRST
Learn about Women in
Technology here:
http://www.womenintechnology.co.uk/about-us
Want to know how PwC is
leading the way in
information and cyber
security? See here:
http://www.pwc.co.uk/sustainability-climate-change/issues/sustainable-information-security.jhtml
Talk to chatbots here:
Contact:
Turing100atBletchleyPark@gmail.com
BBC news video 'can robots 'think' like humans' :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7666836.stm
2008 Turing tests/ Loebner Prize Results page:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/research/Highlights-News/featuresnews/res-featureloebner.aspx
Other Alan Turing links:
The Alan Turing Year Homepage
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/
The Turing Digital Archive
http://www.turingarchive.org/
The Turing Archive for the History of Computing
http://www.alanturing.net/
Alan Turing Year on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Alan-Turing-Year/199853901070
and
http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Alan-Turing-Year/100000473465821
Twitter: Turing100in2012
Turing100 blog:
http://turing100.blogspot.com/
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