Distinguished ProfessorJack Copeland

Interviewed by Andreas Marklund for a radio documentary under production for DR, the Danish National Broadcasting Corporation

Invited panel lecturer

Interviewed by Samir Patel for an article about my work in Archaeology, the magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Jon Barwise Prize

The IT History Society describes its Honor Roll as “a listing of a select few that have made an out-of-the-ordinary contribution to the information industry”.

W. T. Tutte Centenary Lectures

Listening to the music of Turing's computer

The Covey Award recognises “a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy”.

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand on the basis of my research and scholarship (2011).

Session organisor for the 2006 annual Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Session title 'The Ontology of Software'. Panel session reviewer for European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2006, session title 'Hybrid Finite Computation'.

Erskine Grant (19/01/02-14/04/02). Melbourne University

Senior Fellow in the History of Science and Technology, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (January-June 2000)

Keynotes: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland 2002; Irish Philosophical Association, Dundalk 2001; Tenth Annual Loebner Turing Test Competition, Dartmouth College 2000; Austrian Society for Cognitive Science, Univ. of Vienna 1999

Invited addresses: Logic Conf, Melbourne U 2002; Hypercomputation Conf, Univ College London 2000; ACE 2000 Conf, Nat. Museum of Science and Industry, UK; ACE 2000 Conf, Nat. Physical Laboratory, UK; Brit. Soc for Hist of Science, Manchester U 1998

Invited public lectures & exhibitions: Royal Soc of NZ, Canterbury Branch 2002; Portsmouth U 2002; Bletchley Park Nat. Museum 2002; Melbourne U 2002; Royal United Services Inst for Defence, Whitehall 2001; Bletchley Park Nat. Museum 2001

Invited research seminars: 2002: Psychology Dept Macquarie U; Philosophy Dept La Trobe U; Phil Dept Monash U; 2000: Phil Dept U of Maryland at College Park; Dibner Inst., MIT; Phil Dept U of Colorado at Boulder; Phil Dept Ohio State U

Invited research seminars: 1999: Comp Sci Dept Aalborg U; Comp Sci Dept Aarhus U; Centre for Culture, Aarhus U; Info Science Dept, Aarhus U; 1997: Psyc Dept Georgetown U; Phil Dept, New York U; Phil Dept, Indiana U; Phil Dept, Sydney U (12 seminars)

Invited by the Department of Computer Science of Auckland University to deliver the University of Auckland Gibbons Lecture on Turing and Codebreaking (2011). The lecture was given to a live audience of approximately 100 in 2011, with the aim of subsequently streaming it digitally to a much larger audience worldwide during 2012. Also invited in 2011 by the organizers of the 2012 Computability in Europe Conference to organize and chair two Special Sessions and to contribute a paper. This large conference of more than 600 delegates was held in Cambridge, UK. Six internationally acclaimed speakers agreed (in 2011) to speak at my sessions, including Robert Soare and Ivor Grattan-Guinness.

Invited in 2011 by the University of Manchester to give a public lecture to a large audience in June 2012 on my research on Alan Turing. (I delivered the lecture to a physically present audience of 600 academics and members of the general public, with hundreds more viewing the simultaneous digital streaming of the lecture.)

Invited in 2011 by the Cheltenham Science Festival to deliver a lecture on Turing and Codebreaking in 2012. The annual Cheltenham Science Festival is a highly prestigious UK event at which leading authors, scientists and broadcasters lecture to the general public. (I delivered my lecture to an audience of over 300.) I was also invited in 2011 to deliver a lecture at the prestigious Oxford University Turing's World conference in 2012.

I receive highly prestigious invitations to disseminate the results of my research and scholarship to audiences around the world. E.g. I have been invited to give a keynote address at a conference on Turing in Zurich (2011); to lecture at London's famous Reform Club on cryptanalysis (2011); to deliver a keynote address on the Church-Turing thesis at a leading European conference at the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Cracow (2011); to deliver a lecture at a conference on Computation and the Brain at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2011); to give a keynote address at a conference on hypercomputation (the field that I named) at Girton College, Cambridge (2009—declined owing to workload as Head of School); a keynote address at a conference on the philosophy of computing, King’s College, Cambridge (2008—declined owing to HOS workload); a keynote address at the Loebner Turing Test Competition at the University of Reading (2008—declined owing to workload).

Also: to lecture on the history of British computing at the Computer Society’s 50th Anniversary Symposium in London (2007); to give the Annual Templeton Lecture on Science and Society at Sydney University (2006) (the immediately previous speaker in this high-profile lecture series was biologist Richard Lewontin); to give a public lecture at MIT with David Gelernter and Ray Kurzweil in ‘A Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Alan Turing’s Seminal Paper “On Computable Numbers”’ (2006); to co-organize and chair a Symposium on Creativity at MIT with Rod Brooks, Director of MIT's AI Laboratory (2006); to lecture at Tel Aviv University at the 21st International Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science (2006); to lecture at the Gödel Centenary at Vienna University—a major international event opened by the Austrian President—and also to participate in a panel discussion on the mind with Hilary Putnam (probably the world’s most distinguished philosopher) and eminent mathematician Sir Roger Penrose (2006).