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Book SynopsisAlan 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 TuringAlan 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 model
Trade ReviewThe editor not only presents the Turing seminal papers and ingenious contributions to fields he was far ahead his time, he also gives easy access for non-specialists by his comprehensive introductions and comments. * Volker Peckhaus, Zentralblatt MATH 1076 *
Table of ContentsAlan 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)
