The BCS / IET Turing Lecture is a prestigious annual lecture given by a noted speaker on the subject of Computer Science. The lecture is delivered in four different locations: The Royal Institution in London, Cardiff University, The University of Manchester and Belfast City Hall / University of Glasgow.
The lecture is named in honour of Alan Turing, and is co-hosted by the British Computer Society (BCS) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The event should not be confused with the Turing Award lecture organised by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Recent Turing lectures are available as a live webcast and archived online.
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 cryptanalysis to cognitive neuroscience - a hidden legacy of Alan Turing
2011: Donald Knuth, An Evening with Donald Knuth - All Questions Answered.
2010: Christopher Bishop. Embracing Uncertainty: the new machine intelligence
2009: J. Michael 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 - adding positive drift to the random walk with technology
2005: Fred Brooks, Collaboration and Telecollaboration in Design
2004: Fred Piper, Cyberspace Security, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
2003: Carol 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, Facing up to Faults
1999: Samson Abramsky From Computation to Interaction – Towards a Science of Information