I returned from this conference with three distinct impressions: firstly, having Alonzo Church, Barkley Rosser and Haskell Curry together as Honored Guests of the conference; secondly, being totally entertained by the "performer" Peter Henderson presenting a rational reconstruction of an Escher woodcut using recursive function definitions 1 ; and feeling that there were a number of astute British scientists who were thinking about foundational issues, who may soon make fundamental contributions to novel ways of computing!
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