The Essential Turing

B. J. Copeland

Clarendon Press, Sep 9, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 622 pages

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Review: The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life Plus the Secrets of Enigma

User Review  - Jason Copenhaver - Goodreads

The explanations of the papers presented are great. The papers are hard to get through but entertaining. I didn't realize how much of CS that Turing envisioned right at the beginning. Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, etc. He immediately made the leap from universal machine to AI

Review: The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life Plus the Secrets of Enigma

User Review  - Ilya - Goodreads

A collection of articles by Alan Turing on several topics, each with a lengthy preface and sometimes a few relevant articles by other people. The first topic is computability theory; Turing did not ...

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Essential Turing
• Editor: B. J. Copeland
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0191520284, 9780191520280
• Length: 622 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Computers / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Military / World War II; Mathematics / General; Mathematics / Logic; Political Science / Intelligence & Espionage; Psychology / Cognitive Psychology; Science / General; Science / History; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects