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1 online resource (1608 pages)
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9780191520280
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The ideas that gave birth to the computer age. Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and WWII codebreaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad, non-specialist readership. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary computational theory, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life all spring from this ground-breaking work, which is also rich. in philosophical and logical insight. An introduction by leading Turing expert Jack Copeland provides the background and guides the reader through the selection. The paperback is irresistibly priced for individual purchase. - ;Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and WWII codebreaker, is one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad, non-specialist readership. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary computational theory, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life all spring from this ground-breaking work, which is. also rich in philosophical and logical insight. An introduction by leading Turing expert Jack Copeland provides the background and guides the reader through the selection. About Alan Turing. Alan Turing FRS OBE, (1912-1954) studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of King's in March 1935, at the age of only 22. In the same year he invented the abstract computing machines - now known simply as Turing machines - on which all subsequent stored-program digital computers are modelled. During 1936-1938 Turing continued his studies, now at Princeton University. He completed a PhD in
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Alan Turing 1912-1954 -- Computable Numbers: A Guide -- 1. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936) -- 2. On Computable Numbers: Corrections and Critiques -- 3. Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938), including excerpts from Turing's correspondence, 1936-1938 -- 4. Letters on Logic to Max Newman (c.1940) -- Enigma -- 5. History of Hut 8 to December 1941 (1945), featuring an excerpt from Turing's 'Treatise on the Enigma' -- 6. Bombe and Spider (1940) -- 7. Letter to Winston Churchill (1941) -- 8. Memorandum to OP-20-G on Naval Enigma (c.1941) -- Artificial Intelligence -- 9. Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine (1947) -- 10. Intelligent Machinery (1948) -- 11. Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) -- 12. Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory (c.1951) -- 13. Can Digital Computers Think? (1951) -- 14. Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said to Think? (1952) -- Artificial Life -- 15. The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952) -- 16. Chess (1953) -- 17. Solvable and Unsolvable Problems (1954) -- Index -- Footnotes -- fm02foot1 -- fm02foot2 -- fm02foot3 -- fm02foot4 -- part01foot1 -- part01foot2 -- part01foot3 -- part01foot4 -- part01foot5 -- part01foot6 -- part01foot7 -- part01foot8 -- part01foot9 -- part01foot10 -- part01foot11 -- part01foot12 -- part01foot13 -- part01foot14 -- part01foot15 -- part01foot16 -- part01foot17 -- part01foot18 -- part01foot19 -- part01foot20 -- part01foot21 -- part01foot22 -- part01foot23 -- part01foot24 -- part01foot25 -- part01foot26 -- part01foot27 -- part01foot28 -- part01foot29 -- part01foot30 -- part01foot31 -- part01foot32 -- part01foot33 -- part01foot34 -- part01foot35 -- part01foot36 -- part01foot37 -- part01foot38 -- part01foot39 -- part01foot40 -- part01foot41 -- part01foot42.
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