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SUMMARY:Creativity in tough times: Turing and Manchester University after
  the Second World War
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DESCRIPTION:6-7pm. With Professor John Pickstone\, The University of Manc
 hester. The impact of Alan Turing is indisputable\, so too the tragedy o
 f his suicide. In many ways\, his ideas on computing changed the world\,
  but how did he interact with Manchester University – his home for his l
 ast six years? This lecture will explore his work here and the mathemati
 cians\, physicists\, chemists\, biologists and medical men with whom he 
 worked. Many of the staff had been employed on secret projects. You are 
 invited to join them in the years around 1950\, when Manchester was reco
 vering from the War. Let’s see how they renewed the University in a time
  of hope\, how they created new machines and new lines of scientific res
 earch. Let’s listen to their debates on machine intelligence and the pro
 blems of organic form. Let’s dissect ‘Post-war Science’ – to see how big
  ideas were formed as part of the history of Manchester.       
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LOCATION:Manchester Museum\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, Phone: 0161-27526
 48\, Email: museum@manchester.ac.uk
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