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9780198250791

The Essential Turing Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198250791

  • ISBN10:

    0198250797

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-11-18
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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This title includes the following features: the first purchasable book by Turing; the ideas that gave birth to modern computing; designed for a general readership; brings together unpublished and inaccessible pieces; introduction gives a clear overview of Turing's life and works; highlyrelevant to his famous work in WWII codebreaking

Author Biography


B. J. Copeland is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Alan Turing 1912-1954 1(4)
Jack Copeland
Computable Numbers: A Guide 5(212)
Jack Copeland
1. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)
58(33)
2. On Computable Numbers: Corrections and Critiques
91(34)
Alan Turing, Emil Post, and Donald W. Davies
3. Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938), including excerpts from Turing's correspondence, 1936-1938
125(80)
4. Letters on Logic to Max Newman (c.1940)
205(12)
Enigma 217(136)
Jack Copeland
5. History of Hut 8 to December 1941 (1945), featuring an excerpt from Turing's 'Treatise on the Enigma'
265(48)
Patrick Mahon
6. Bombe and Spider (1940)
313(23)
7. Letter to Winston Churchill (1941)
336(5)
8. Memorandum to OP-20-G on Naval Enigma (c.1941)
341(12)
Artificial Intelligence 353(154)
Jack Copeland
9. Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine (1947)
362(33)
10. Intelligent Machinery (1948)
395(38)
11. Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
433(32)
12. Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory (c.1951)
465(11)
13. Can Digital Computers Think? (1951)
476(11)
14. Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said to Think? (1952)
487(32)
Alan Turing, Richard Braithwaite, Geoffrey Jefferson, and Max Newman
Artificial Life 507(90)
Jack Copeland
15. The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952)
519(43)
16. Chess (1953)
562(14)
17. Solvable and Unsolvable Problems (1954)
576(21)
Index 597

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