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TUCS Distinguished Lecture on 27.9.: Jan van Leeuwen
Friday, September 27, 2013 at 13.15
ICT Building, Auditorium Lambda
Coffee served from 12:45
Jan van Leeuwen, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands: "What is Computation?"
Host: Ion Petre, Åbo Akademi University
Abstract: Various new ideas have developed lately about computation. Do we actually know what it is, despite what Turing told us? Are ‘abstract state machines’ the answer? Do Valiant's ecorithms count as computation? We will survey a number of issues in the Philosophy of Computing and present a new, epistemological view of computation that may radically change our understanding of computational processes (joint research with J. Wiedermann). What are the challenges for computer science?
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