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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 Turing's life and work.
This volume will bring together contributions from some of the leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide to Turing that will serve as a useful resource for researchers in the area as well as the increasingly interested general reader. The book will cover aspects of Turing's life and the wide range of his intellectual activities, including mathematics, code-breaking, computer science, logic, artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, as well as his subsequent influence.
Biography
1: Life and work, JACK COPELAND and JONATHAN BOWEN
2: The man with the terrible trousers, SIR JOHN DERMOT TURING
3: Meeting a genius, PETER HILTON
4: Crime and punishment, JACK COPELAND
THE UNIVERSAL MACHINE AND BEYOND
5: A century of Turing, STEPHEN WOLFRAM
6: Turing's great invention: the universal computing machine, JACK COPELAND
7: Hilbert and his famous problem, JACK COPELAND
8: Turing and the origins of digital computers, BRIAN RANDELL
CODEBREAKER
9: At Bletchley Park, JACK COPELAND
10: The Enigma machine, JOEL GREENBERG
11: Breaking machines with a pencil, MAVIS BATEY
12: Bombes, JACK COPELAND, with JEAN VALENTINE and CATHERINE CAUGHEY
13: Introducing Banburismus, EDWARD SIMPSON
14: Tunny, Hitler's biggest fish, JACK COPELAND
15: We were the world's first computer operators, ELEANOR IRELAND
16: The Testery: breaking Hitler's most secret code, JERRY ROBERTS
17: Ultra revelations, BRIAN RANDELL
18: Delilah - encrypting speech, JACK COPELAND
19: Turing's Monument, SIMON GREENISH, JONATHAN BOWEN, and JACK COPELAND
COMPUTERS AFTER THE WAR
20: Baby, JACK COPELAND
21: ACE, MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY
22: Turing's Zeitgeist, BRIAN E. CARPENTER and ROBERT W. DORAN
23: Computer music, JACK COPELAND and JASON LONG
24: Turing, Lovelace, and Babbage, DORON SWADE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE MIND
25: Intelligent machinery, JACK COPELAND
26: Turing's model of the mind, MARK SPREVAK
27: The Turing test - from every angle, DIANE PROUDFOOT
28: Turing's concept of intelligence, DIANE PROUDFOOT
29: Connectionism: computing with neurons, JACK COPELAND and DIANE PROUDFOOT
30: Child machines, DIANE PROUDFOOT
31: Computer chess - the first moments, JACK COPELAND and DANI PRINZ
32: Turing and the paranormal, DAVID LEAVITT
BIOLOGICAL GROWTH
33: Pioneer of artificial life, MARGARET BODEN
34: Turing's theory of morphogenesis, THOMAS E. WOOLLEY, RUTH BAKER, and PHILIP MAINI
35: Radiolaria: validating the Turing theory, BERNARD RICHARDS
Mathematics
36: Introducing Turing's mathematics, ROBIN WHITTY and ROBIN WILSON
37: Decidability and the Entscheidungsproblem, ROBIN WHITTY
38: Banburismus revisited: depths and Bayes, EDWARD SIMPSON
39: Turing and randomness, ROD DOWNEY
40: Turing's mentor, Max Newman, IVOR GRATTAN-GUINNESS
Finale
41: Is the whole universe a computer?, JACK COPELAND, ORON SHAGRIR, and MARK SPREVAK
42: Turing's legacy, JONATHAN BOWEN
Description
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 Turing's life and work.
This volume will bring together contributions from some of the leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide to Turing that will serve as a useful resource for researchers in the area as well as the increasingly interested general reader. The book will cover aspects of Turing's life and the wide range of his intellectual activities, including mathematics, code-breaking, computer science, logic, artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, as well as his subsequent influence.
