Donald Knuth and Dana Scott – Turing Prize Laureates in Brno
October 8–11, 2019
Oct 8th, 14:00 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, lecture hall D1.
Q&A session by Donald Knuth:
Computer Programming as Art – Views and responses to any related
question and comments
Come with prepared questions about Computer Programming
for "unprepared" professor Knuth (session inspired by Feynman's
All Questions Answered talks).
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Oct 9th, 12:30 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, lecture hall D3+D1.
Q&A session by Donald Knuth:
Boundless Interests – Computer programming is an art form,
like the creation of poetry or music
Come with prepared questions not only
about Computer Programming for "unprepared" professor Knuth (really
All Questions Answered, including music ;-).
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Oct 9th, 16:30 Masaryk University's Mendel Museum,
Augustinian Abbey Refectory
at Mendel's Square, Brno.
Lecture by Dana Stewart Scott:
Enumeration
Operators, Probability, Type Theory
Lecture by the holder of Turing prize
("Nobel Prize for Computer Science") as part of
Masaryk University Seminar series in Mathematics,
Physics, & Computer Science.
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alt="Mendel Square in Old Town, Brno,
where scientists like Gregor Mendel and
Scott's colleague from Princeton Kurt Gödel worked">
Oct 11th, 19:00, Brno, Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
Multimedia performance of oratorium
Fantasia Apocalyptica.
The Czech première of Knuth's musical opus, with personal presence of the author,
first doctor
honoris causa of FI MU Donald E. Knuth.
Organist Jan Rotrekl
will play on
new Hermann Mathis pipe organ.
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