The Essential Turing - Classic Writings on Minds and Computers

Zusatztext The editor not only presents the Turing seminal papers and ingenious contributions to fields he was far ahead his time, he also gives easy access for non-specialists by his comprehensive introductions and comments. Informationen zum Autor B. J. Copeland is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Klappentext - 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 Zusammenfassung The ideas that gave birth to the computer age Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II codebreaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume presents his key writings that deals with: computational theory, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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) ...

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• Authors: B.J. Copeland, Alan M. Turing, Alan Mathison Turing
• Assisted by: B. J. Copeland (Editor), B. J. (Director of The Turing Archive for the History of Computing Copeland (Editor), B. Jack Copeland (Editor), B. Jack. Copeland (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2004
• EAN: 9780198250807
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825080-7
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Artificial Intelligence, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, COMPUTERS / Machine Theory, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Mathematical theory of computation, 3D graphics & modelling, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Graphics Tools, 3D graphics and modelling