{{For|the Turing Award Lecture|Turing Award}} {{Infobox award | name = Turing Talk | image = Alan Turing az 1930-as években.jpg | image_size = <!-- or | image_upright = --> | alt = | caption = The Turing Talk is named in honour of Alan Turing, often considered the father of Computer Science | awarded_for = | sponsor = {{Plainlist| * Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) * British Computer Society (BCS)}} | date = {{start date|1998}} | location = {{Plainlist| * London *Manchester * Cardiff * Belfast *Glasgow}} | country = United Kingdom | website = {{URL|https://www.bcs.org/events-home/turing-talk}} |}}The '''Turing Talk''', previously known as the '''Turing Lecture''',<ref name=ieturing/> is an annual award lecture delivered by a noted speaker on the subject of Computer Science. Sponsored and co-hosted by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://events2.theiet.org/turing/index.cfm|title=Digital Twins: The Next Phase of the AI Revolution? - IET Events|website=events2.theiet.org|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=2020-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217134821/https://events2.theiet.org/turing/index.cfm|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the British Computer Society,<ref name=bscturing/> the talk has been delivered at different locations in the United Kingdom annually since 1999. Venues for the talk have included Savoy Place, the Royal Institution in London, Cardiff University, The University of Manchester, Belfast City Hall and the University of Glasgow.<ref name=bscturing>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150409072033/http://www.bcs.org/category/5951|archive-date=2015-04-09|url=http://www.bcs.org/category/5951|title=Past BCS & IET Turing Lectures|publisher=British Computer Society|location=London}}</ref><ref name=ieturing>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906071606/http://conferences.theiet.org/turing/speaker/previous/index.cfm|archive-date=2015-09-06|url=http://conferences.theiet.org/turing/speaker/previous/index.cfm|title=Previous IET and BCS Turing Lectures|publisher=Institution of Engineering and Technology|location=London}}</ref> The main talk is preluded with an insightful speaker, who performs an opening act for the main event.
The talk is named in honour of Alan Turing and should not be confused with the Turing Award lecture organised by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Milner | first1 = Robin|author-link=Robin Milner | doi = 10.1145/151233.151240 | title = Elements of interaction: Turing award lecture | journal = Communications of the ACM | volume = 36 | pages = 78–89 | year = 1993 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Recent Turing talks are available as a live webcast and archived online.<ref name=youtube/>
==Turing Talks== Previous speakers have included: * 2022: Julie McCann, a day in the life of a smart city<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Julie McCann to give Turing Talk 2022 {{!}} BCS |url=https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/bcswomen-specialist-group/news-and-conversations/professor-julie-mccann-to-give-turing-talk-2022/ |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=bcs.org}}</ref> * 2021: Cecilia Mascolo, Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/turing-talk-2021-sounding-out-wearable-and-audio-data-for-health-diagnostics/|title=2021 Turing Talk: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics; BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT|website=www.bcs.org}}</ref> * 2020: Mark Girolami,<ref name=girolswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon|title=Girolami, Prof. Mark | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U292496|id = U292496 | year= 2020 | edition = online Oxford University Press}}</ref> Digital Twins: The Next Phase of the AI Revolution<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bcs.org/events/2020/february/turing-talks-2020/|title=Turing Talks 2020 | BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT|website=www.bcs.org|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=2021-09-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928004926/https://www.bcs.org/events/2020/february/turing-talks-2020/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2019: {{ill|Krishna Gummadi|qid=Q102243231}} Engineering a fair future: Why we need to train unbiased AI<ref name=youtube>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuqGKDQ_JqI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/FuqGKDQ_JqI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Engineering a Fair Future: Why we need to train unbiased AI |publisher=YouTube |date=2019-02-18 |access-date=2020-02-17}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2018: Andy Harter, Innovation and technology – art or science?<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bcs.org/events-home/turing-talk/2018-turing-talk-innovation-and-technology-art-or-science/|title=2018 Turing Talk: Innovation and technology - art or science? | BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT|website=www.bcs.org|access-date=2020-02-17|archive-date=2021-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021094032/https://www.bcs.org/events-home/turing-talk/2018-turing-talk-innovation-and-technology-art-or-science/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2017: Guruduth Banavar, Beneficial AI for the Advancement of Humankind<ref name=banavar>{{YouTube|id=zHXJpwddeo0|title=London Turing Lecture 2017}}, British Computer Society</ref> * 2016: Robert Schukai, The Internet of Me: It's all about my screens * 2015: Robert Pepper, The Internet Paradox: How bottom-up beat(s) command and control<ref>{{YouTube|lSYpimUE9tk|The IET & BCS Turing Lecture 2015: The Internet Paradox}}</ref> * 2014: Bernard S. Meyerson, Beyond silicon: Cognition and much, much more<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/intapeople/blog_posts/beyond-silicon-cognition-and-much-much-more-the-iet-bcs-turing-lecture-24789 | title=Beyond silicon: Cognition and much, much more – the IET/BCS Turing Lecture }}</ref> * 2013: Suranga Chandratillake, What they didn't teach me: building a technology company and taking it to market * 2012: Ray Dolan,<ref name=dolanswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon|title=Dolan, Prof. Raymond Joseph |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245952 | id = U245952 | year= 2015 | edition = online Oxford University Press}}</ref> From cryptoanalysis to cognitive neuroscience – a hidden legacy of Alan Turing * 2011: Donald Knuth, An Evening with Donald Knuth – All Questions Answered<ref>{{cite web | url=https://simon.harper.name/2011/02/15/an-evening-with-donald-knuth-all-questions-answered-7th-annual-turing-lecture/ | title='An Evening with Donald Knuth – All Questions Answered' – 7th Annual Turing Lecture | date=15 February 2011 }}</ref> * 2010: Christopher Bishop. Embracing Uncertainty: the new machine intelligence * 2009: Mike Brady,<ref name=bradyturing>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329124424/http://www.bcs.org/category/7358|publisher=British Computer Society|title=Professor Sir Michael Brady|location=London|archive-date=2016-03-29|url=http://www.bcs.org/category/7358}}</ref> Information Engineering and its Future * 2008: James Martin, Target Earth and the meaning of the 21st century * 2007: Grady Booch, The Promise, the Limits and the Beauty of Software * 2006: Chris Mairs,<ref name=mairswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon|title=Mairs, Christopher John | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245228|id = U245228 | year= 2015 | edition = online Oxford University Press}}</ref> Lifestyle access for the disabled * 2005: Fred Brooks, Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design * 2004: Fred Piper, Cyberspace Security, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly * 2003: Caroline Kovac, Computing in the Age of the Genome<ref>{{cite journal|title=Computing in the Age of the Genome|first=Caroline|last= Kovac|journal=The Computer Journal|volume=46|issue=6|year=2003|pages=593–597|doi=10.1093/comjnl/46.6.593}}</ref> * 2002: Mark Welland, Smaller, faster, better – but is it nanotechnology? * 2001: Nick Donofrio, Technology, Innovation and the New Economy * 2000: Brian Randell, Facing up to Faults * 1999: Samson Abramsky From Computation to Interaction – Towards a Science of Information
== See also == * Pinkerton Lecture
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