Alan Mathison Turing

The Essential Turing

Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life Plus the Secrets of Eni
Ed. by B. J. Copeland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

- Developed the mathematical theory upon, which all stored program digital computers are modeled - Pioneered Artificial Intelligence - Played an essential role in deciphering Enigma, the code used by the German High Command during the Second World War to protect their radio communications - Founding father of modern cognitive science

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 622
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 925g
• ISBN-13: 9780198250807
• ISBN-10: 0198250800
• Artikelnr.: 14604195

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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)