The Essential Turing

The ideas that gave birth to the computer age
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-825079-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 620 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1073 g

The legacy of the code-breaker who invented modern computingKey Features:

- The first time Alan Turing's writings have been available to a general readership
- Published to mark the 50th anniversary of his death
- The ideas that gave birth to modern computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science
- A superb array of articles, broadcasts and lectures, each introduced and set in context
- Includes Turing's work on the Enigma codes
- An Introduction gives a full picture of Turing's life and works
Description:

Alan 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.

Zielgruppe

Anyone with an interest in computing, artificial intelligence, codebreaking, WW2 history, or the history of ideas and technology in the 20th century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Copeland, B. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein EDV & Informatik: Geschichte
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computersimulation & Modelle, 3-D Graphik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mathematik für Informatiker
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Alan Turing 1912-1954

- Computable Numbers: A Guide

- 1: On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidensproblem (1936)

- 2: Alan Turing, Emil Post, and Donald W. Davies: 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.: Patrick Mahon: 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: Alan Turing, Richard Braithwaite, Geoffrey Jefferson, and Max Newman: 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)

Über Autor(innen)

B.J.COPELAND, Director of the Turing Centre, University of Canterbury, New Zealand