Programme
The Book of Abstracts can be downloaded here
Day 1, 10 October 2012
8.30-9.00: Registration and coffee
9.00-9.30: Opening
9.30-10.30: Rineke Verbrugge, Cognitive Systems in Interaction
10.30-11.00: Coffee-break
11.00-11.30: Aziz F. Zambak. Structural, Functional, and Organizational Conditions in Artificial Intelligence
11.30-12.00: Francis Rousseaux. From Alan Turing’s Imitation Game to Contemporary Lifestreaming Attempts
12.00-12.30: Marcin Milkowski, Functional account of computational explanation
12.30-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.00: Marie Hicks, The Imitation Game Writ Large: Thinking about gender, labor, and sexuality in making machines useful.
15.00-15.30: Coffee-break
15.30-16.00: Bennie Mols, From Turing’s Test to Turing’s Tango
16.00-16.30: Huma Shah, Kevin Warwick, Ian Bland, Chris D. Chapman and Marc J. Allen. Turing’s Imitation Game: Role of Error-making in Intelligent Thought
16.30-17.00: Craig Mcconnell, Literary Turing tests: Speculative Fiction as Thought Experiment
17.00-17.30: Coffee-break
Co-event Belgian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (Auditorium)
17.30-18.30: Daniel Dennett, Turing's gradualist vision: making minds from proto-minds
18.30-19.00: Words by Sir Dermot Turing
19.00-20.00: Screening of the Movie "Codebreaker"
Day 2, 11 October 2012
9.00-10.00: Elvira Mayordomo, From Computability to Information Theory: : Effective fractal dimension in general spaces
10.00-10.30: Coffee-break
10.30-11.00: Takanori Hida, A Computational interpretation of the Axiom of Determinacy in Arithmetic
11.00-11.30: Duilio D'Alfonso, Some remarks towards a philosophy of complexity
11.30-12.00: Marcin J. Schroeder, Nature Inspired Information processing at Higher Level of Hierarchic Complexity
12.00-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.30: Barry Cooper, Turing Machines, Embodied Information, and Higher Type Computability
14.30-15.00: Coffee-break
15.00-15.30: Rainer Glaschick,Turlough Neary, Damien Woods and Niall Murphy: Hasenjaeger’s electromechanical small universal Turing machine is time efficient
15.30-16.00: Wolfgang Brand, The Paradigms of Computing: Molding the Machine or the Context
16.00-16.30: Helena Durnova, A five-address computer and the ease of programming
16.30-17.00: Coffee-break
17.00-18.00: Leo Corry, Turing and the Computational Tradition in Pure Mathematics: The Case of the Riemann Zeta-Function
19.00-22.00: Conference dinner
Day 3, 12 October 2012
9.00-10.00: Maurice Margenstern, Universality everywhere and beyond, an epic of computer science
10.00-10.30: Coffeebreak
10.30-11.00: John Geske, Turing's Legacy: Computational Complexity issues of Secure Cryptographic Systems
11.00-11.30: Jim Slagle. How Gödel Foresaw Lucas’s Argument against AI
11.30-12.00: Hector Zenil, A Turing Test-Inspired Approach to Natural Computation
12.00-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.30: Alexandra Shlapentock, Definability and decidability over function fields of positive characteristic
14.30-15.00: Coffeebreak
15.00-15.30: Edgar Daylight. A Hard Look at George Dyson's book "Turing's Cathedral"
15.30-16.00: Stéphane Massonet, Playing Chess with a Philosopher: Turing and Wittgenstein
16.00-16.30: Matthew Parker, Universal Computation and strongly undecidable behaviour in a spatially bounded, error-resistant, reversible, thermally conservative and massively parallel machine
16.30-17.00 Closing
