Dear Committee Members and Friends,
There will be an organizing committee meeting at 4:00pm in Gates 359 on Wednesday the 31st August.
As the summer closes we have little more than 12 months to execute our plan, that should be plenty of time. In this meeting we need to review our objectives in the light of the economic necessities and constraints and make the necessary decisions to proceed.
We have the support of John Hennessy, numerous Emeritus faculty, Associates, Visitors and Independents. We have the support of Active Faculty from departments that utilize computation and have an interest in foundations, except CS. We continue to be short of critical active faculty members from Stanford CS (and EE) able to facilitate our cause. Other departments naturally look to the CS Department for leadership in this event.
Everyone is busy, of course, but I am disappointed at the response from the Stanford CS faculty given both the central contribution that Alan Turing has made to the discipline and the clear need to make further progress and continue efforts in Computer Science at his level of inquiry.
Please encourage your friends in CS and EE faculty to participate.
Separately, I will be contacting Program Committee members and Informal Advisors during September with the first draft of the Call-For-Papers. If you have thoughts about what you have seen outlined so far then please send them to me by email. I am on campus frequently so if you wish to talk about the conference privately or just swap notes on Alan Turing then I am happy to come to your office.
With respect,
Steven Ericsson-Zenith
on behalf of the Organizing Committee, Challenging Turing 2012
