Alan M. Turing.
Containing never-before-published material, this fascinating account sheds new light on one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Alan M. TURING; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE CENTENARY EDITION; Alan Turing's War; Alan Turing's Universal Computer; Alan Turing's Homosexuality; The Engagement; Turing in Princeton; Turing's ACE; Can Machines Think?; The Burglary; Alan Turing's Death; Other Reading; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION; PART ONE: Mainly Biographical; 1: Family Background; 2: Childhood and Early Boyhood; 3: At Sherborne School; 4: At Cambridge; 5: At the Graduate College, Princeton; Second Year at Princeton; 6: Some Characteristics.
- 7: War Work in the Foreign Office8: At the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington; A Sabbatical Year at King's; 9: Work with the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine; Cybernetics; 10: Broadcasts and Intelligent Machinery; 11: Morphogenesis; 12: Relaxation; Athletics; 13: Last Days and Some Tributes; PART TWO: Concerning Computing Machinery and Morphogenesis; 14: Computing Machinery; Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory; 15: Theory of Morphogenesis Considered; Chemical Theory of Morphogenesis; Geometrical Theory of Phyllotaxis; MY BROTHER ALAN; BIBLIOGRAPHY.