Description: Essential Turing : Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intellegence, And Artificial Life; Plus The Secrets Of Enigma, Paperback by Copeland, B. Jack; Turing, Alan Mathison, ISBN 0198250800, ISBN-13 9780198250807, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Alan Turing was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. In 1935, aged 22, he developed the mathematical theory upon which all subsequent stored-program computers are modeled.
At the outbreak of hostilities with Germany in September 1939, he joined the Government Codebreaking team at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire and played a crucial role in deciphering Engima, the code used by the German armed forces to protect their radio communications. Turings work on the version
of Enigma used by the German navy was vital to the battle for supremacy in the North Atlantic. He also contributed to the attack on the cyphers known as "Fish," which were used by the German High Command for the encryption of signals during the latter part of the war. His contribution helped to
shorten the war in Europe by an estimated two years.
After the war, his theoretical work led to the development of Britains first computers at the National Physical Laboratory and the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University.
Turing was also a founding father of modern cognitive science, theorizing that the cortex at birth is an "unorganized machine" which through "training" becomes organized "into a universal machine or something like it." He went on to develop the use of computers to model biological growth, launching
the discipline now referred to as Artificial Life.
The papers in this book are the key works for understanding Turings phenomenal contribution across all these fields. The collection includes Turings declassified wartime "Treatise on the Enigma"; letters from Turing to Churchill and to codebreakers; lectures, papers, and broadcasts which opened up
the concept of AI and its implications; and the paper which formed the genesis of the investigation of Artifical Life.
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Book Title: Essential Turing : Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosop
Number of Pages: 624 Pages
Publication Name: The Essential Turing
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item Height: 242 mm
Subject: Computer Science
Publication Year: 2004
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 884 g
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology
Author: B. Jack. Copeland
Item Width: 166 mm
Format: Paperback
