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CATEGORIES:Churchill CompSci Talks
SUMMARY:Turing Tar-Pits - Thomas Johnson\, Magdalene Colle
 ge
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20141203T194000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20141203T203000
UID:TALK56196AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/56196
DESCRIPTION:Back in the foggy dawn of computer science it was 
 believed that if we could develop minimalistic mod
 els of computation we could understand much more a
 bout computability. Obviously this is not the case
 \, so we are left with some very confusing systems
 .\n\nThis talk covers a few of those systems and t
 he programming languages they spawned: brainfuck\,
  Lazy K and BCP. The talk will also cover other es
 oteric langauges: Conway's Game of Life and Bitwis
 e Cyclic Tag\, with a few honourable mentions that
  fail to be Turing tar-pits (Whitespace and Ndef t
 o name two).\n\nThe talk will give an overview of 
 each language and computational model introduced\,
  attempting for each to show how it works\, how it
 's weird\, and why it exists.\n\nThis talk is an i
 ntroduction to the world of esoteric languages\, b
 eginning with those special ones for which anythin
 g is possible but nothing is easy.\n 
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
CONTACT:Jasper Lee
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