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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine Book

Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of computability theory in the process, a foundation of present-day computer programming. The book expands Turing's original 36-page paper with additional background chapters and extensive annotations; the author elaborates on and clarifies many of Turing's statements, making the original difficult-to-read document accessible to present day programmers, computer science majors, math geeks, and others. Interwoven into the narrative are the highlights of Turing's own life: his years at Cambridge and Princeton, his secret work in cryptanalysis during World War II, his involvement in seminal computer projects, his speculations about artificial intelligence, his arrest and prosecution for the crime of "gross indecency," and his early death by apparent suicide at the age of 41.Read More

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    The Annotated Turing - A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine : Paperback : John Wiley & Sons Inc : 9780470229057 : 0470229055 : 16 Jun 2008 : Before digital computers ever existed, Alan Turing envisioned their power and versatility. but also proved what computers could never do.

  • Blackwell

    Before digital computers ever existed, Alan Turing envisioned their power and versatility... but also proved what computers could never do.In an extraordinary and ultimately tragic life that unfolded like a novel, Turing helped break the German...

  • 0470229055
  • 9780470229057
  • Charles Petzold
  • 13 June 2008
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
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