Research Catalog

Title

The essential Turing : seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, plus the secrets of Enigma / edited by B. Jack Copeland.

Author

Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Additional Authors

Copeland, B. Jack, 1950-

Description

viii, 613 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 2004

Alternative Title

Works. 2004

Subjects

• Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
• Enigma cipher system
• Artificial intelligence
• Turing, Alan, 1912-1954
• Mathematics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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).

Call Number

JSE 08-356

ISBN

• 0198250797 (hc. : alk. paper)
• 9780198250791 (hc. : alk. paper)
• 0198250800 (pbk.)
• 9780198250807 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004275594

OCLC

57434580

Author

Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.

Title

The essential Turing : seminal writings in computing, logic, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and artificial life, plus the secrets of Enigma / edited by B. Jack Copeland.

Imprint

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Publisher description

Contributor biographical information

Added Author

Copeland, B. Jack, 1950-

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Research Call Number

JSE 08-356