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The Turing guide /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Oxford] :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 origins 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. Artificial 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 artificial 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: Introducing 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.