The Turing guide /
This carefully edited resource brings together contributions from some of the world's leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide that will serve as a useful resource for researchers in the area as well as the increasingly interested general reader.
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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Table of 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.