The Turing Guide

The Turing Guide
Author Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, Robin Wilson, et al.
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subject Alan Turing (1912–1954)
Genre Non-fiction, history of science
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date
 January, 2017
Media type Print (hardcover, paperback, e-book)
Pages xv+546
ISBN 978-0-19-874783-3
OCLC 958479379

The Turing Guide (2017), written by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak,[1] Robin Wilson, and others, is a book about the work and life of the British mathematician, philosopher, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954).

Overview

The book includes 42 contributed chapters by a variety of authors, including some contemporaries of Alan Turing. The book was published in January 2017 by Oxford University Press,[2] in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats.

Contents

The Turing Guide is divided into eight main parts, covering various aspects of Alan Turing’s life and work:

  1. Biography: Biographical aspects of Alan Turing.
  2. The Universal Machine and Beyond: Turing’s universal machine (now known as a Turing machine), developed while at King's College, Cambridge, which provides a theoretical framework for reasoning about computation, a starting point for the field of theoretical computer science.
  3. Codebreaker: Turing’s work on codebreaking during World War II at Bletchley Park, especially the Bombe for decrypting the German Enigma machine.
  4. Computers after the War: Turing’s post-War work on computing, at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and at the University of Manchester. He made contributions to both hardware design, through the ACE computer (later implemented as the Pilot ACE) at the NPL, and software, especially at Manchester using the Manchester Baby computer, later the Manchester Mark 1 and Ferranti Mark 1.
  5. Artificial Intelligence and the Mind: Turing’s pioneering and philosophical contribution to machine intelligence (now known as Artificial Intelligence or AI), including the Turing test.
  6. Biological Growth: Morphogenesis, Turing’s last major scientific contribution, on the generation of complex patterns through chemical processes in biology and on the mathematics behind them, foundational in mathematical biology.
  7. Mathematics: Some of Turing’s mathematical achievements, including one of his most significant influences, Max Newman.
  8. Finale: Turing in a wider subsequent context, including his influence and legacy to science and in the public consciousness.

The book includes a foreword by Andrew Hodges, preface, notes on the contributors, endnotes, and an index.

Contributors

The following 33 authors contributed to chapters in the book:

Reviews

The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including:[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mark Sprevak". UK: University of Edinburgh.
  2. ↑ "The Turing Guide". Oxford University Press. 2017.
  3. ↑ "The Turing Guide: Reviews and Awards". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Customer Reviews: The Turing Guide". Amazon.co.uk. Amazon. 2017.
  5. ↑ Lenton, Dominic (14 March 2017). "Book reviews: The Turing Guide, Alan Turing's life and work". Engineering & Technology.
  6. ↑ Jones, Cliff (2017). "The Turing Guide". Formal Aspects of Computing. 29: 1121–1122. doi:10.1007/s00165-017-0446-y.
  7. ↑ Clegg, Brian (19 February 2017). "Brian Clegg's Reviews > The Turing Guide". Goodreads.
  8. ↑ Schulte, Tom (4 July 2017). "The Turing Guide: MAA Review". Mathematical Association of America.
  9. ↑ Robinson, Andrew (4 January 2017). "The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?". New Scientist.
  10. ↑ Petrocelli, Carla (2018). "The Turing Guide, by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, and Robin Wilson". Nuncius. Brill. 33 (1): 166–168. doi:10.1163/18253911-03301015.
  11. ↑ Cerf, Vint (January 2018). "The man behind the machine". Physics World: 38–39.
  12. ↑ Han, Bao (3 April 2018). "枷锁与馈赠|认识真实的图灵 ，一位如谜的解谜者" (in Chinese). WeChat.
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