Turing

• Coincides with the centenary of Alan Turing's birth on June 23, 2012
• A biography of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century
• Reflects upon all aspects of his life and work - from his important role at Bletchley Park, and his contributions to articifial intelligence, to his tragic personal circumstances and death aged only 41
• Considers the legacy of his work today
• Written by the leading scholar on Turing's work

Readership: Readers interested in Alan Turing, codebreaking, Bletchley Park, the Second World War, and computing history.

B. Jack Copeland, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing

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 (Oxford University Press), Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers (Oxford University Press), Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (Oxford University Press), Logic and Reality: Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior (Oxford University Press), and Artificial Intelligence (Blackwell); and he has published more than 100 articles on the philosophy and history of computing, and mathematical and philosophical logic.

1: Click to Open
2: Turing's Universal Machine
3: Sinking Hilbert
4: The Intuitive Mathematician
5: Breaking Enigma
6: Tunny - Hitler's BlackBerry
7: The Colossus of Computers
8: ACE- A Month's Work in a Minute
9: The Manchester "Electronic Brain"
10: Artificial Intelligence
11: The Imitation Game
12: Educating Machinery
13: Computer Chess
14: Artificial Life
15: Epilogue