Let us calculate! From Leibniz to Turing
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Alan Turing, the inventer of the computer, would have celebrated 100 years June 23.rd, if he was still alive. This jubilee will be celebrated with cinema and debate June 22.nd, at the Studenst Cultural House in Bergen, Kvarteret.
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18:30 Short film about Alan Turing
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19:30 Introduction by Thore Husfeldt, Lund University and ITU Copenhagen (debate to follow, with Michal Walicki, Department of Informatics, etc.)
Thore Husfeldt, Lund University and ITU Copenhagen:
"I describe the intellectual history of computational thinking, beginning with the vision of Leibniz, an early advocate of rationalism, to solve differences of opinion by symbolic reasoning in a sufficiently strong formal system. From there, the road goes via Boole, Frege, Russel, and Gödel to heartbreak and catastrophe, and via Alan Turing to the triumph of the mechanical, algorithmic worldview of today. I end with an appraisal of the possible consequences of the algorithmic world for sex, lies, and videotapes, and the future of mankind."
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