Dear all, Please see this email about an informative speaker series at Georgia Tech featuring many interesting talks.

Best, Amir

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*From:* "Axel, Zachary N" zaxel3@gatech.edu *Date:* September 29, 2024 at 5:33:58 AM GMT+3 *To:* "Axel, Zachary N" zaxel3@gatech.edu *Subject:* *Turing Minds (Jewish student initiative)*

 Dear Esteemed HUJI faculty, I hope this email finds you well. My name is Zack Axel, and I am a proud Jewish Georgia tech Masters in CS student who is spearheading a virtual intiative featuring many Turing award winners and even some notable programming language creators.

It would be an absolute honor if HUJI students and faculty in Israel could attend the series virtually. It comes after we had an informative series last year, with *5 *other Turing winners; incl. Leslie Lamport, Ed Feigenbaum, Barbara Liskov, Jeff Ullman, Jack Dongarra: *https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/ga-tech-students-lead-speaker-series/ https://www.atlantajewishtimes.com/ga-tech-students-lead-speaker-series/*

It is free for anyone to attend these speaker events(I invite anyone at your CS departments who wishes to attend) , and we hope to educate the greater community on the contributions of these awesome computer scientists. Our first speaker starts 10/4.

We will host 9:* Donald Knuth, Geoffrey Hinton, Vint Cerf, James Gosling, Leslie Valiant, Joseph Sifakis, Yoshua Bengio, John Hennessey, Avi Wigderson, Michael Stonebraker*, and more.

The RSVP website, in case anyone is interested in tuning in from your CS departments, is *www.turing.rsvp http://www.turing.rsvp/** . *

*Can you please reply to me if your students and faculty would be interested in attending this? I sincerely hope this is a value add and informative/highly educational experience to all. * My love to Israel,

Zack Axel, Georgia tech Computer Science Events Chair