{"id":1443,"date":"2012-11-07T12:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2015-08-25T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:52:02","slug":"turing100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2012\/11\/07\/turing100\/","title":{"rendered":"Turing 100: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Alan Turing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, November 11, and Monday, November 12, 2012, the Hariri Institute, the BU Center for Philosophy and the History of Science, and the BU Department of Computer Science are hosting a interdisciplinary symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Alan Turing. Turing&#8217;s contributions to computer science, mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence, and philosophy laid much of the groundwork for the computational revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium brings together leading researchers and thinkers across this broad range, with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/2012\u20132013\/#turing\" target=\"_blank\">19 distinguished speakers<\/a>, including several winners of the ACM&#8217;s Turing Award.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/colloquium\/2012\u20132013\/#turing\" target=\"_blank\">symposium program<\/a> begins at 10 AM on November 11 in room 906 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/maps\/?id=763\" target=\"_blank\">Photonics Building, at 8 St. Mary&#8217;s St. in Boston<\/a>. The event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/hic\/files\/2012\/11\/Turing100Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"636\" width=\"386\" src=\"\/hic\/files\/2012\/11\/Turing100Poster-386x636.jpg\" alt=\"Turing 100 Poster\" title=\"Turing 100 Poster\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1450 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2012\/11\/Turing100Poster-386x636.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2012\/11\/Turing100Poster-622x1024.jpg 622w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2012\/11\/Turing100Poster-768x1265.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2012\/11\/Turing100Poster-933x1536.jpg 933w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2012\/11\/Turing100Poster.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click to Enlarge<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2012\/11\/Turing100Poster.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Download the Poster<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, November 11, and Monday, November 12, 2012, the Hariri Institute, the BU Center for Philosophy and the History of Science, and the BU Department of Computer Science are hosting a interdisciplinary symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Alan Turing. Turing&#8217;s contributions to computer science, mathematics, logic, artificial intelligence, and philosophy laid much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11748,11747,11716],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8354,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/8354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}