Annual Turing Lecture 2008 at Bletchley Park

Monday, 23rd June 2008

Prestigious Speaker, Dr Andrew Hodges Announced

Thursday 10 July 2008

For many years, Alan Turing remained a completely mysterious figure in the origin of modern computing because of the secrecy concerning his wartime work.  Relaxation of that secrecy has allowed many questions to be answered, but new problems have opened up.

Dr Andrew Hodges will discuss some of the unresolved issues that have come to the forefront as historians of science strive to understand the development of Turing’s thought.  These questions go to the heart of questions about Artificial Intelligence and are as fresh and lively and awkward today as Alan Turing was to his contemporaries.

About the Speaker

Dr Andrew Hodges is a tutor in Mathematics and Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford.  He is best known for his biography ‘Alan Turing: The Enigma’ which appeared in 1983, and for numerous further articles on Turing’s life and work.

Venue: The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB. For directions, see www.bletchleypark.org.uk.

Times: Reception from 6:00pm, Lecture from 6:30pm, followed by Dinner at 8:00pm.

Payment £52 per person (no concessions).  Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Bletchley Park Trust Ltd’ to Victoria Pether, The Mansion, Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB.  Please indicate how many tickets you require and any special dietary requirements