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| Material Type: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Mathison Turing; B Jack Copeland |
| ISBN: | 0198250797 9780198250791 0198250800 9780198250807 |
| OCLC Number: | 156728127 |
| Description: | viii, 613 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Alan Turing 1912-1954; Computable Numbers: A Guide; 1. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidensproblem (1936); 2. On Computable Numbers: Corrections and Critiques; 3. Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938); 4. Letters on Logic to Max Newman (c. 1940); Enigma; 5. History of Hut 8 to December 1941 (1845); 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 Machine (1947); 10. Intelligent Machinery (1948); 11. Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950); 12. Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory (c. 1951); 13. Can Digital Computers Think?; 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) |
| Responsibility: | edited by B. Jack Copeland. |
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A worthwhile addition to the growing body of material on Turing and related historical aspects of computing. The Essential Turing is a must for any library or individual wanting a comprehensive academic collection on Turing computation. Jonathan Bowen, THES Read more...
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