Continuing the Alan Turing Celebration Lecture Series, part of the 50th Anniversary of UVic and the 100th Anniversary of Turing, we have two exciting experts in music and computers coming to speak this week!

David Jaffe is rare in that he is well known and respected composer as well as a very competent and successful programmer. Jaron Lanier did pioneering research in virtual reality, is an accomplished musician, a well known speaker, and author of
“You Are Not a Gadget, A Manifesto <http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307389978>,” a New York Times best book of the year for 2010.

David A. Jaffe, Universal Audio

The Library of Babel – Composing, Computing, and Creativity

Monday, Nov. 5th 6:30PM, Social Sciences and Math, A120

Tuesday, Nov. 6th, 2:30PM, MacLaurin Building, Room A168

Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research

Turing’s Spiritual Legacy

Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 8:15pm, PT Young Recital Hall, School of Music

Check (http://www.facebook.com/UvicComputerScience) for more music & computers events on this week.