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The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma

By Alan M. Turing , B. Jack Copeland

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2004
ISBN
0-19-825079-7, 0-19-825080-0, 9780198250791
Open Library ID
OL17139615M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5179364 bytes)
Pages
600\622
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of his tragically short life included the universal Turing Machine (the theoretical foundation of all modern computing), the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design for an electronic stored-programme computer, and work on artificial intelligence and artificial life so revolutionary that he can claim to be the founding father of these disciplines. In this book, Turing's key writings in all these subjects are made easily accessible for the first time. Lectures, scientific papers, top secret wartime material, correspondence, and broadcasts are introduced and set in context by Jack Copeland, Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing.

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