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<h2 id="turing-talks">Turing Talks</h2> <p>Previous speakers have included: </p> <ul><li>2022: <a href="/facts/Julie_McCann/QmSzJg7A">Julie McCann</a>, a day in the life of a <a href="/facts/Smart_city/RkmIVQC3">smart city</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li>2021: <a href="/facts/Cecilia_Mascolo/N5gYuw7L">Cecilia Mascolo</a>, Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/facts/Mark_Girolami/xqHDtTVM">Mark Girolami</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Digital_twin/CIajYd9S">Digital Twins</a>: The Next Phase of the <a href="/facts/Artificial_intelligence/lJGauQwX">AI</a> Revolution<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li> <li>2019: Krishna Gummadi [Wikidata] Engineering a fair future: Why we need to train unbiased AI<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></li> <li>2018: <a href="/facts/Andy_Harter/DUjUKwB3">Andy Harter</a>, Innovation and technology – art or science?<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></li> <li>2017: Guruduth Banavar, Beneficial <a href="/facts/Artificial_Intelligence/lJGauQwX">AI</a> for the Advancement of Humankind<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li> <li>2016: Robert Schukai, The Internet of Me: It's all about my screens</li> <li>2015: <a href="/facts/Robert_Pepper/db4aCD2k">Robert Pepper</a>, The Internet Paradox: How bottom-up beat(s) command and control<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/facts/Bernard_S._Meyerson/qEQt53Kb">Bernard S. Meyerson</a>, Beyond silicon: Cognition and much, much more<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></li> <li>2013: <a href="/facts/Suranga_Chandratillake/JmxQMHrN">Suranga Chandratillake</a>, What they didn't teach me: building a technology company and taking it to market</li> <li>2012: Ray Dolan,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> From cryptoanalysis to cognitive neuroscience – a hidden legacy of Alan Turing</li> <li>2011: <a href="/facts/Donald_Knuth/GozNzDM6">Donald Knuth</a>, An Evening with Donald Knuth – All Questions Answered<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/facts/Christopher_Bishop/9vYtFcbT">Christopher Bishop</a>. Embracing Uncertainty: the new machine intelligence</li> <li>2009: <a href="/facts/J._Michael_Brady/qTM9g6C6">Mike Brady</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> Information Engineering and its Future</li> <li>2008: <a href="/facts/James_Martin_(author)/osKGcBvC">James Martin</a>, Target Earth and the meaning of the 21st century</li> <li>2007: <a href="/facts/Grady_Booch/RzM2Yvkp">Grady Booch</a>, The Promise, the Limits and the Beauty of Software</li> <li>2006: Chris Mairs,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> Lifestyle access for the disabled</li> <li>2005: <a href="/facts/Fred_Brooks/1FNtgMgE">Fred Brooks</a>, Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design</li> <li>2004: Fred Piper, Cyberspace Security, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly</li> <li>2003: <a href="/facts/Caroline_Kovac/oSJtFxw1">Caroline Kovac</a>, Computing in the Age of the Genome<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a></li> <li>2002: <a href="/facts/Mark_Welland/B8SYnzgu">Mark Welland</a>, Smaller, faster, better – but is it nanotechnology?</li> <li>2001: <a href="/facts/Nick_Donofrio/bzmXV8gr">Nick Donofrio</a>, Technology, Innovation and the New Economy</li> <li>2000: <a href="/facts/Brian_Randell/mp6nJuP4">Brian Randell</a>, Facing up to Faults</li> <li>1999: <a href="/facts/Samson_Abramsky/qpcVXuos">Samson Abramsky</a> From Computation to Interaction – Towards a Science of Information</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Pinkerton_Lecture/zaqVPcLC">Pinkerton Lecture</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Previous IET and BCS Turing Lectures". London: Institution of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150906071606/http://conferences.theiet.org/turing/speaker/previous/index.cfm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150906071606/http://conferences.theiet.org/turing/speaker/previous/index.cfm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Digital Twins: The Next Phase of the AI Revolution? - IET Events". events2.theiet.org. Archived from the original on 2020-02-17. Retrieved 2020-02-17. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200217134821/https://events2.theiet.org/turing/index.cfm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20200217134821/https://events2.theiet.org/turing/index.cfm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Past BCS & IET Turing Lectures". London: British Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2015-04-09. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150409072033/http://www.bcs.org/category/5951" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150409072033/http://www.bcs.org/category/5951</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Past BCS & IET Turing Lectures". London: British Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2015-04-09. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150409072033/http://www.bcs.org/category/5951" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150409072033/http://www.bcs.org/category/5951</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Previous IET and BCS Turing Lectures". London: Institution of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150906071606/http://conferences.theiet.org/turing/speaker/previous/index.cfm" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150906071606/http://conferences.theiet.org/turing/speaker/previous/index.cfm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Milner, Robin (1993). "Elements of interaction: Turing award lecture". Communications of the ACM. 36: 78–89. doi:10.1145/151233.151240. <a href="/wiki/Robin_Milner" target="_blank">/wiki/Robin_Milner</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Engineering a Fair Future: Why we need to train unbiased AI". YouTube. 2019-02-18. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2020-02-17. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuqGKDQ_JqI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuqGKDQ_JqI</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Professor Julie McCann to give Turing Talk 2022 | BCS". bcs.org. Retrieved 2022-05-19. <a href="https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/bcswomen-specialist-group/news-and-conversations/professor-julie-mccann-to-give-turing-talk-2022/" target="_blank">https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/bcswomen-specialist-group/news-and-conversations/professor-julie-mccann-to-give-turing-talk-2022/</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"2021 Turing Talk: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics; BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT". www.bcs.org. <a href="https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/turing-talk-2021-sounding-out-wearable-and-audio-data-for-health-diagnostics/" target="_blank">https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/turing-talk-2021-sounding-out-wearable-and-audio-data-for-health-diagnostics/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Anon (2020). "Girolami, Prof. Mark". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U292496. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) <a href="https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U292496" target="_blank">https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U292496</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Turing Talks 2020 | BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT". www.bcs.org. Archived from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2020-02-17. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210928004926/https://www.bcs.org/events/2020/february/turing-talks-2020/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20210928004926/https://www.bcs.org/events/2020/february/turing-talks-2020/</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Engineering a Fair Future: Why we need to train unbiased AI". YouTube. 2019-02-18. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2020-02-17. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuqGKDQ_JqI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuqGKDQ_JqI</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"2018 Turing Talk: Innovation and technology - art or science? | BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT". www.bcs.org. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21. Retrieved 2020-02-17. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211021094032/https://www.bcs.org/events-home/turing-talk/2018-turing-talk-innovation-and-technology-art-or-science/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20211021094032/https://www.bcs.org/events-home/turing-talk/2018-turing-talk-innovation-and-technology-art-or-science/</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>London Turing Lecture 2017 on YouTube, British Computer Society <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHXJpwddeo0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHXJpwddeo0</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>The IET & BCS Turing Lecture 2015: The Internet Paradox on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSYpimUE9tk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSYpimUE9tk</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>"Beyond silicon: Cognition and much, much more – the IET/BCS Turing Lecture". <a href="https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/intapeople/blog_posts/beyond-silicon-cognition-and-much-much-more-the-iet-bcs-turing-lecture-24789" target="_blank">https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/intapeople/blog_posts/beyond-silicon-cognition-and-much-much-more-the-iet-bcs-turing-lecture-24789</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Anon (2015). 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The Computer Journal. 46 (6): 593–597. doi:10.1093/comjnl/46.6.593. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>