The Turing guide / by Jack Copeland and others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Copeland, B. Jack, 1950-

Bowen, Jonathan, author.

Sprevak, Mark, 1977- author.

Wilson, Robin, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics: history.

Cryptography: history.

Computer science: history.

Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.

Turing, Alan.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 546 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work. This volume will bring together contributions from some of the leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide to Turing that will serve as a useful resource for researchers in the area as well as the increasingly interested general reader. The book will cover aspects of Turing's life and the wide range of his intellectual activities, including mathematics, code-breaking, computer science, logic, artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, as well as his subsequent influence.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

Contents:

Part I. Biography: Life and work / Jack Copeland and Jonathan Bowen

The man with the terrible trousers / Sir John Dermot Turing

Meeting a genius / Peter Hilton

Crime and punishment / Jack Copeland

Part II. The universal machine and beyond: A century of Turing / Stephen Wolfram

Turing's great invention: the universal computing machine / Jack Copeland

Hilbert and his famous problem / Jack Copeland

Turing and orogins of digital computers / Brian Randell

Part III. Codebreaker: At Bletchley Park / Jack Copeland

The Enigma machine / Joel Greenberg

Breaking machines with a pencil / Mavis Batey

Bombes / Jack Copeland (with Jean Valentine and Catherine Caughey)

Introducing Banburisms / Edward Simpson

TunnY: Hitler's biggest fish / Jack Copeland

We were the world's first computer operators / Eleanor Ireland

The Testery: breaking Hitler's most secret code / Jerry Roberts

Ultra revelations / Brian Randell

Delilah

encrypting speech / Jack Copeland

Turing's monument / Simon Greensih, Jonathan Bowen and jack Copeland

Part IV. Computers after the war: Baby / Jack Copeland

ACE / Martin Campbell-Kelly

Turing's zeitgeist / Brian Carpenter and Robert Doran

Computer music / Jack Copeland and Jason Long

Turing, Lovelace, and Babbage / Doron Swade

Part V. Artifical Intelligence and the mind: Intelligent machinery / Jack Copeland

Turing's model of the mind / Mark Sprevak

The Turing test

from every angle / Diane Proudfoot

Turing's concept of intelligence / Diane Proudfoot

Connectionism: computing with neurons / Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot

Child machines / Diane Proudfoot

Computer chess

the first moments / Jack Copeland and Dani Prinz

Turing and the paranormal / David Leavitt

Part VI. Biological growth: Pioneer of articial life / Margaret Boden

Turing's theory of morphogenesis / Thomas Woolley, Ruth Baker, and Philip Maini

Radiolaria: validating the Turing theory / Bernard Richards

Part VII. Mathematics: Introdung Turing's mathematics / Robin Whitty and Robin Wilson

Decidability and the Entscheidungsproblem / Robin Whitty

Banburismus revisited: depths and Bayes / Edward Simpson

Turing and randomness / Rod Downey

Turing's mentor, Max Newman / Ivor Gratton-Guinness

Part VIII. Finale: Is the whole universe a computer? / Jack Copeland, Mark Sprevak, and Oron Shagrir

Turing's legacy / Jonathan Bowen and Jack Copeland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-106501-3

0-19-191694-3

0-19-106500-5