The essential Turing : seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, plus the secrets of Enigma /

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Turing, Alan, 1912-1954
Other Authors: Copeland, B. Jack, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Turing, Alan, > 1912-1954.
Turing, Alan, > 1912-1954
Mathematics.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Enigma cipher system.
Artificial intelligence.
Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Mathématiques.
Logique symbolique et mathématique.
Enigma (Machine à chiffrer)
Intelligence artificielle.
artificial intelligence.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
Artificial intelligence
Enigma cipher system
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Informatica.
Information technology / Computer science.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Alan Turing 1912-1954 / Jack Copeland
  • Computable numbers : a guide / Jack Copeland
  • On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)
  • On computable numbers : corrections and critiques / Alan Turing, Emil Post and Donald W. Davies
  • Systems of logic based on ordinals (1938), including excerpts from Turing's correspondence, 1936-1938
  • Letters on logic to Max Newman (c.1940)
  • Enigma / Jack Copeland
  • History of Hut 8 to December 1941 (1945), featuring an excerpt from Turing's 'Treatise on the Enigma' / Patrick Mahon
  • Bombe and Spider (1940)
  • Letter to Winston Churchill (1941)
  • Memorandum to OP-20-G on Naval Enigma (c.1941)
  • Artificial intelligence / Jack Copeland
  • Lecture on the automatic computing engine (1947)
  • Intelligent machinery (1948)
  • Computing machinery and intelligence (1950)
  • Intelligent machinery, a heretical theory (c.1951)
  • Can digital computers think? (1951)
  • Can automatic calculating machines be said to think? (1952) / Alan Turing, Richard Braithwaite, Geoffrey Jefferson and Max Newman
  • Artificial life / Jack Copeland
  • The chemical basis of morphogenesis (1952)
  • Chess (1953)
  • Solvable and unsolvable problems (1954).

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