Turing Day 
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İstanbul Bilgi University
Turing Days '06: Randomness & Complexity
May 27, 2006
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This will be the fifth of the Turing Days organised by the Department of Computer Science at Istanbul Bilgi University. Turing Days in Istanbul brings speakers to discuss the theory of computation and some of its implementations.
 
Our activity is named in memory of Alan Mathison Turing, the British mathematician (and, more famously, cryptologist) who was one of the founders of computational theory.

The theme of  the "Turing Days' 06" is Randomness & Complexity. The leading scientists in the field will give introductory seminars for general audience. Also, they will talk over more sophisticated topics regarding their specific research interests.

Complexity is one of the main aspects of Computer Science. Related topics like Algorithmic Information Theory, Kolmogorov Complexity, Chaitin-Kolmogorov Randomness are commonly based on this field. This international meeting on Randomness & Complexity is going to be a meeting of main researchers of these fields, yet sharing a common interest.

This year there will be crash course before and after the conference. Prof. Cristian Calude will give a crash course about: "Algorithmic Information Theory. A Personal Approach" on 24-25-26 May.
Prof. Ray Solomonoff, Founder of Algorithmic Information Theory, will give a crash course on this topic on 29-30-31 May. Details on these crash courses will be here soon.

Anybody interested in, or wanting to learn about Randomness & Complexity is welcomed!

Why Computational Theory?

In the field of computing, the theorists have had a much clearer vision than the practitioners. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) the first programmer never saw the computer she was programming, Babbages's Analytical Engine, completed, but she wrote in 1840 about the possibility of using computers to compose music.

Alan Turing invented the purely theoretical "Turing machine" before computers became a practical reality, He, too, thought deeply about the possibility of using the computer for tasks other than routine calculations and proposed the "Turing test" to determine whether a computer program had really achieved artificial intelligence.

More "practical" people have often been notoriously wrong in their rather narrow estimations of the possibilities of computing:

"I think there is a world market for about five computers.", Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943.
 
"There is no reason for anyone to have a computer in their home.", Kenneth Olson, President of Digital Equipment, 1977.

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Place:
İstanbul Bilgi University,  Dolapdere Campus, D-130

Registration:
Please click here to register!  (Registration is free).

Address: Kurtuluş Deresi Cad. No: 47 34440 Dolapdere / İSTANBUL / TURKEY

Transportation:
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Phone:  
(+90 212) 3115452

 E-mail & Coordination:
H. Coşkun Gündüz
cgunduz AT cs bilgi edu tr

If you want to be an active participant at the conference, we ask you to send a message to cgunduz AT cs bilgi edu tr  including a very short summary of what you intend to talk about. If you want to, you can also send an ordinary 6-10 pages long paper, to be included in the Conference Proceeding, provided we get the material not later than March 15.

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We hope that this meeting will continue to contribute in getting a wider view of computation theory...