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SUMMARY:Turing Tar-Pits - Thomas Johnson\, Magdalene College
DTSTART:20141203T194000Z
DTEND:20141203T203000Z
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CONTACT:Jasper Lee
DESCRIPTION:Back in the foggy dawn of computer science it was believed tha
 t if we could develop minimalistic models of computation we could understa
 nd much more about computability. Obviously this is not the case\, so we a
 re left with some very confusing systems.\n\nThis talk covers a few of tho
 se systems and the programming languages they spawned: brainfuck\, Lazy K 
 and BCP. The talk will also cover other esoteric langauges: Conway's Game 
 of Life and Bitwise Cyclic Tag\, with a few honourable mentions that fail 
 to be Turing tar-pits (Whitespace and Ndef to name two).\n\nThe talk will 
 give an overview of each language and computational model introduced\, att
 empting for each to show how it works\, how it's weird\, and why it exists
 .\n\nThis talk is an introduction to the world of esoteric languages\, beg
 inning with those special ones for which anything is possible but nothing 
 is easy.\n 
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
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