This prestigious event is outlined below. It is run annually by the Institute of Analysts and Programmers close to the Tower and Tower Bridge at the sumptuous Trinity House, well worth a visit in itself. It was added to the BCSCMsG programme, in case it once again proved impossible to organize a Greenwich Saturday Symposium, although efforts to do this continue. In the event, both the London Branch of the BCS and the Group helped respectively through, i) sponsorship for which the Group wishes to thank them, and with ii) the provision of a face recognition demonstration system which John Sutherland of the ANDCorporation very kindly supplied plus with the suggestion of a topic, the DNA-wave Biocomputer and arrangements for the speaker, Peter Gariaev of the Russian Academy of Science's Institute of Control Sciences. Everything about this well attended symposium, was upto expectation, for which we must thank Steve Cumbers. And it, of course, included the remit and the excellent chairmanship of Brian Oakley, which has been so much apart of the Greenwich event. A great day was had by all.

FRONTIERS OF COMPUTING
Trinity House, Tower Hill, London EC3N 4DH
2000 October 20 Friday
in association with the
British Computer Society

Standard Price: £117.50 (£100 + VAT) | BCS Member: £82.25 (£70 + VAT) | IAP Member: £58.75 (£50 + VAT)

Synopsis

The international panel of distinguished researchers chaired by Mr Brian Oakley CBE, European Institute of Quantum Computing and a past President of the BCS, took delegates on a grand tour of the most intriguing questions in 21st Century Informatics:

1. Given that the conscious mind depends upon the architecture of the brain, could we engineer a machine that has both imagination and emotions, and would such a machine be conscious?

Speakers
Prof Igor Aleksander FREng Imperial College
Prof Susan Greenfield CBE Royal Institution and University of Oxford

2. Soon after 2010, when the CMOS endpoint repeals Moore's Law, could technology and coherent quantum devices satisfy our relentless demand for more computational power?
Prof Anthony Hey University of Southampton

3. Will teleportation (nonlocality) be harnessed to devise new types of quantum logic gate, and might quantum devices be fabricated out of the very stuff of life itself -DNA?
Dr Colin Williams NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr Sci Peter Gariaev Russian Academy of Sciences

4. Should we design the human-computer interface to accommodate the environmentally and biologically impaired eg soldiers, asteronauts, the elderly and disabled people?
Prof Alan Newell FRSE University of Dundee

5. Are we bobbing around in a flood of data from which we abstract too little useful information and worse still, are crude data reduction methods misinforming public policy?
Dr Mahes Visvalingam University of Hull

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