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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Alan Turing\, the Enigma\, and the emergence of the
  computer
DTSTART:20141107T140000
DTEND:20141107T160000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By: Andrew Hodges - University of OxfordVideo on demandAbstrac
 t:\nThe British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) is well-known for th
 e formulation in 1936 of the abstract theory of computability. But he was 
 also the central scientific figure in the successful British penetration o
 f German cipher systems in the Second World War. In this talk I will descr
 ibe the remarkable steps that Turing took between 1936 and 1940\, in movin
 g from the highly theoretical to the intensely practical. I will also sket
 ch the influence this had on his later project for the construction of a f
 irst electronic computer.Bio:\nAndrew Hodges is Senior Research Fellow at 
 the Mathematical Institute\, University of Oxford\, and a Fellow of Wadham
  College\, Oxford. His main research work is in fundamental physics\, as a
  collaborator of Roger Penrose (Oxford) and Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS\, Princ
 eton). But he has also published extensively on the subject of Alan Turing
 . His biography of Turing first appeared in 1983\, and has attracted atten
 tion for its wide scope\, bringing together mathematics\, computer science
 \, philosophy of mind\, and cryptography within the framework of Turing's 
 extraordinary personal story.More information
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