The IET/BCS Manchester Turing Lecture 2012
"From cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience - a hidden legacy of Alan Turing"
Speaker:
Professor Ray Dolan
Date: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Time: See schedule for details.
Location: Lecture Theatre B, University Place.
The University of Manchester, in partnership with the IET, BCS and IBM, was delighted to announce Professor Ray Dolan as 2012 8th annual Turing Lecture speaker.
Ray Dolan, from Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry UCL and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL, discussed the heritage of Turing's work, and its ongoing effects on computing today.
A webcast of Turing Lecture 2012 is available from here.
Synopsis
Ray's talk titled 'From cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience - a hidden legacy of Alan Turing' covered how Turing's strongly Bayesian problem solving approaches have advanced developments in understanding the workings of the brain and the human mind.
- Focussing on the challenges Turing faced in relation to Enigma
- Exploring Turing's strongly Bayesian problem solving approaches
- Looking at the similarities with the problem the brain faces in making sense of its environment
- Looking at how this translates into algorithms used in decisions in relation to the world
- Extending the problem to the greater complexity entailed by an environment where there are other intentional agents
- Determining how the approach and solutions to Enigma forged by Turing can be turned inwards, where the brain itself is the unknown, to probe mechanistic processes that give rise to the very apparatus that is the human mind .
