Turing
Pioneer of the Information Age
by Jack Copeland
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Pub Date Feb 01 2013 | Archive Date Jan 22 2013
Description
In 1999,Time magazine named Alan
Turing one of the twentieth century's 100 greatest minds, alongside the
Wright brothers, Albert Einstein, and Watson and Crick. Who was Turing,
and what did he achieve during his tragically short life? Marking the
centenary of Turing's birth, here is a short, highly accessible
introduction to this brilliant scientist and his work, written by
leading authority Jack Copeland. Copeland describes Alan Turing's
revolutionary ideas about Artificial Intelligence and his pioneering
work on Artificial Life, his all-important code-breaking work during
World War II, and his contributions to mathematics, philosophy, and the
foundations of computer science. To him we owe the brilliant innovation
of storing applications and programs inside the computer's memory,
ready to be opened when we wish. With this single invention (known as
the "stored-program" concept), Turing changed the world. A distinctive
feature of the book is the extensive system of hyperlinks to The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, an on-line library of facsimiles of typewritten documents by Turing and his fellow pioneers of the electronic computer.
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9780199639793 |
PRICE | $21.95 (USD) |