Date

29 February 2012

Time

6pm

Location

The University of Edinburgh

In honour and recognition of Turing's contribution in the field of computing, the IEE (as the IET was then) and the BCS established the Turing Lecture with the first lecture being presented in 1999.

In this lecture Professor Ray Dolan, Mary Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry, and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL will discuss:

• 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

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