ISBN : 9780198747833
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 JACK COPELAND and JONATHAN BOWEN: Life and work
2 SIR JOHN DERMOT TURING: The man with the terrible trousers
3 PETER HILTON: Meeting a genius
4 JACK COPELAND: Crime and punishment
THE UNIVERSAL MACHINE AND BEYOND
5 STEPHEN WOLFRAM: A century of Turing
6 JACK COPELAND: Turing's great invention: the universal computing machine
7 JACK COPELAND: Hilbert and his famous problem
8 BRIAN RANDELL: Turing and the origins of digital computers
CODEBREAKER
9 JACK COPELAND: At Bletchley Park
10 JOEL GREENBERG: The Enigma machine
11 MAVIS BATEY: Breaking machines with a pencil
12 JACK COPELAND, with JEAN VALENTINE and CATHERINE CAUGHEY: Bombes
13 EDWARD SIMPSON: Introducing Banburismus
14 JACK COPELAND: Tunny, Hitler's biggest fish
15 ELEANOR IRELAND: We were the world's first computer operators
16 JERRY ROBERTS: The Testery: breaking Hitler's most secret code
17 BRIAN RANDELL: Ultra revelations
18 JACK COPELAND: Delilah - encrypting speech
19 SIMON GREENISH and JONATHAN BOWEN: Saving the Park
COMPUTERS AFTER THE WAR
20 JACK COPELAND: The Manchester Baby
21 MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY: ACE, London's first computer
22 BRIAN E. CARPENTER and ROBERT W. DORAN: Turing's Zeitgeist
23 JACK COPELAND and JASON LONG: Computer music
24 DORON SWADE: Turing, Lovelace, and Babbage
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE MIND
25 JACK COPELAND: Intelligent machinery
26 MARK SPREVAK: Turing's model of the mind
27 DIANE PROUDFOOT: The Turing test - from every angle
28 DIANE PROUDFOOT: Turing's concept of intelligence
29 JACK COPELAND and DIANE PROUDFOOT: Connectionism: computing with neurons
30 DIANE PROUDFOOT: Child machines
31 JACK COPELAND and DANI PRINZ: Computer chess - the first moments
32 DAVID LEAVITT: Turing and the paranormal
BIOLOGICAL GROWTH
33 MARGARET BODEN: Pioneer of artificial life
34 THOMAS E. WOOLLEY, RUTH BAKER, and PHILIP MAINI: Turing's theory of morphogenesis
35 BERNARD RICHARDS: Radiolaria: validating the Turing theory
Mathematics
36 ROBIN WHITTY and ROBIN WILSON: Introducing Turing's mathematics
37 ROBIN WHITTY: Decidability and the Entscheidungsproblem
38 EDWARD SIMPSON: Banburismus revisited: depths and Bayes
39 ROD DOWNEY: Turing and randomness
40 IVOR GRATTAN-GUINNESS: Turing's mentor, Max Newman
Finale
41 JACK COPELAND, ORON SHAGRIR, and MARK SPREVAK: Is the whole universe a computer?
42 JONATHAN BOWEN: Turing's legacy