The #Turing Festival Edinburgh

Expect fewer blog posts over the next few days as I'm travelling to Edinburgh Scotland to talk about Alan Turing's legacy at The Turing Festival. Steve Wozniak is giving the keynote but there's lots of other fascinating looking talks and events taking place, from talks by National Geographic Explorers, to a full day Music Hack. All of this of course is surrounded by the Edinburgh International Festival and the Comedy and Fringe Festivals.

#Woz on net neutrality, Kim Dotcom and WikiLeaks - video

Here's an interesting interview in which Steve Wozniak, the Apple co-founder,  gives his opinions on net neutrality, the Kim Dotcom case, Wikileaks and a range of other topical issues. If you want to hear him speak in more detail Woz is giving the keynote at The Turing Festival in Edinburgh, where I will be next week.

The #Turing Festival Edinburgh

I've been invited to speak at The Turing Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland this August. I have to say I'm quite excited as the event looks like it will be a lot of fun and very interesting. I'm giving a public lecture in Auckland as part of my computer science department's celebrations of Turing's centenary, on Turing and Artificial Intelligence. At the Turing Festival I'll be able to reprise this lecture, which is always good as it will be better the second time.
    Of course The Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe Festival, which combined are the world's largest cultural festival will be in full swing then, so Edinburgh will be an exciting place to visit. I have family in Edinburgh as well so I'll be able to catch up with them. You can see a summary of last year's Turing Festival in the video below.


Highlights from the Turing Festival 2011 from Interactive Scotland