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The Computer Science Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, along with the LACCIR Virtual Institute (Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research) are pleased to invite you to the Presentation of Dr. Leslie Lamport titled "What is Computation?" The presentation will take place on Tuesday November 16th at 11 AM (GMT -3) in the San Agustín Auditorium at the Pontificia Universida Católica de Chile, San Joaquín Campus, located at Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago, Chile. To Join the Broadcast copy the following address on your browser window: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/laccir/join?id=NW9RSM&role=attend&pw=F%5CJ3%21%244wj In case of technical difficulties, please contact videoconfere...@laccir.org Title: What is Computation? Abstract: We depend on computer systems that are not dependable. No one knows how to solve this problem, and I don't pretend to. But a better understanding of what those systems do just might help a little. The tool that people have been using for centuries to understand such things is math. I will use math to explain what computation is. I will assume a familiarity with grade-school arithmetic, and I will explain the small amount of additional math that is required (which is much simpler than arithmetic). About the speaker: Leslie Lamport is a world famous researcher in distributed algorithms. He is also well known as the creator of LaTeX, which is a page layout system used by scientists in a number of fields (information technology, mathematics, physics, etc.) to produce documents containing numerous mathematical formulae. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972. Leslie Lamport joined Microsoft Research in 2001 after working as a research engineer for Digital Equipment since 1985. He received the IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2008), ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2007) and IEEE Piore Award (2004). He has honorary doctorates from Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy (2007), Universit della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano (2006), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2004), Christian Albrechts University, Kiel (2003), University of Rennes (2003). Personal Web: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/ -- Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research. www.laccir.org _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list Logica-l@dimap.ufrn.br http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
