Alan Turing''s Electronic Brain - The Struggle to Build the Ace, the World''s Fastest Computer

Zusatztext This is a provocative book. Informationen zum Autor Jack Copeland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he is Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing. His books include The Essential Turing, Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers, Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, Logic and Reality: Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior (all with Oxford University Press), and he has published more than 100 articles on the philosophy andhistory of computing, and mathematical and philosophical logic. Klappentext Well known for this crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, this book chronicles Turing's struggle to build the modern computer. Includes first hand accounts by Turing and the pioneers of computing who worked with him. Zusammenfassung Well known for this crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, this book chronicles Turing's struggle to build the modern computer. Includes first hand accounts by Turing and the pioneers of computing who worked with him.

Product details

• Authors: B. J. Copeland, B. Jack Copeland, Others
• Assisted by: B. J. Copeland (Editor), B. Jack Copeland (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2012
• EAN: 9780199609154
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960915-4
• No. of pages: 581
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT