The Turing Talk, previously known as the Turing Lecture, is an annual award

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delivered by a noted speaker on the subject of

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. Sponsored and co-hosted by the

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(IET) and the

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, the talk has been delivered at different locations in the

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annually since 1999. Venues for the talk have included Savoy Place, the Royal Institution in London,

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, The

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, Belfast City Hall and the

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. 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

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and should not be confused with the

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lecture organised by the

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(ACM). Recent Turing talks are available as a live webcast and archived online.

Turing Talks

Previous speakers have included: * 2022: Julie McCann, a day in the life of a

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* 2021: Cecilia Mascolo, Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics * 2020: Mark Girolami, Digital Twins: The Next Phase of the AI Revolution * 2019: Engineering a fair future: Why we need to train unbiased AI * 2018: Andy Harter, Innovation and technology – art or science? * 2017: Guruduth Banavar, Beneficial AI for the Advancement of Humankind,

* 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 * 2014: Bernard S. Meyerson, Beyond silicon: Cognition and much, much more * 2013: Suranga Chandratillake, What they didn't teach me: building a technology company and taking it to market * 2012: Ray Dolan, From cryptoanalysis to cognitive neuroscience – a hidden legacy of Alan Turing * 2011:

Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of comp ...

, An Evening with Donald Knuth – All Questions Answered * 2010:

Christopher Bishop Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is a British computer scientist. He is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Director oMicrosoft Research AI4Science He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and ...

. Embracing Uncertainty: the new machine intelligence * 2009: Mike Brady, 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, Lifestyle access for the disabled * 2005:

Fred Brooks Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr. (April 19, 1931 – November 17, 2022) was an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing development of IBM's System/360 family of mainframe computers and the ...

, 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 * 2002: Mark Welland, Smaller, faster, better – but is it nanotechnology? * 2001: Nick Donofrio, Technology, Innovation and the New Economy * 2000:

Brian Randell Brian Randell (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and emeritus professor at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He specialises in research into software fault tolerance and dependability, and is a noted ...

, Facing up to Faults * 1999: Samson Abramsky From Computation to Interaction – Towards a Science of Information

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Turing Talks

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