Special Lectures Series
Alan Turing's work was of fundamental importance in establishing computer science and the computer as we know it today. The lectureseries celebrating the centenary of Alan Turing aims to present to the general public the life and work of this leading figure. The lectures will be presented by experts in many aspects of the life and work of Alan Turing.
Lectures will have live broadcast available at http://mconf.org/events/turing/.
Organization: Prof. Marcelo Walter
Prof. Dr. Luis da Cunha Lamb 
Ph.D. in Computer Science (Imperial College London, London, England, 2000).
Prof. Lamb is a full professor and the head of the Institute of Informatics at UFRGS (12/2011 - 12/2015).Title: Alan Mathison Turing and the Turing Award Winners: A short journey through the history of Computer Science
Where: UFRGS - Campus do Vale, Institute of Informatics, Auditorium of Building 67
Prof. Dr. Leila Ribeiro
Ph.D. in Computer Science (Technical University of Berlin/Germany, 1996). Associate Professor at the Institute of Informatics/UFRGS and member of the IFIP Working Group 1.3 (Foundations of System Specification). Main research areas: Foundations of Computer Science (models of computation); Software Engineering (formal specification, semantics and verification); Bioinformatics (models of biological systems).
Title: What is Computation? From the Turing machine to Computational Thinking
Where: UFRGS - Campus do Vale, Institute of Informatics, Auditorium of Building 67
Prof. Dr. Sue Black
Sue Black is Senior Research Associate in the Software Systems Engineering group in the the Department of Computer Science at University College London. She is also the founder of the Saving Bletchley Park campaign. Dr. Black has been raising awareness of the plight of Bletchley Park the site where codebreakers such as Alan Turing worked during World War II.
Where: UFRGS - Campus do Vale, Institute of Informatics, Auditorium of Building 67
Prof. Dr. Ruy de Queiroz
Graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pernambuco (1980), MSc in Computer Science from UFPE (1984) and PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London (1990).
Title: Decidable and Undecidable Problems: The Legacy of Alan Turing
Where: UFRGS - Campus do Vale, Institute of Informatics, Auditorium of Building 67
Prof. Dr. Barry Cooper
Professor Cooper is a professor in the School of Mathematics of University of Leeds. He is also the Chair of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee, coordinating a huge range of Turing Centenary activities, and is President of the Association Computability in Europe. Lectures and writes on Turing's seminal work on classical compu-tability, including his work related to incomputability and its consequences for how the real world computes.
Title: Alan Turing and the Computing Revolution: Ten Big Ideas that Changed the World
Where: UFRGS - Campus do Vale, Institute of Informatics, Auditorium of Building 67
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