Alan Turing, life and legacy of a great thinker
Alan Turing's fundamental contributions to computing led to the development of modern computing technology, and his work continues to inspire researchers in computing science and beyond.
Print Book, English, 2004
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st ed View all formats and editions
Springer, Berlin, 2004
estudios y conferencias
XXVIII, 542 p. il, gráf
9783642057441, 9783540200208, 3642057446, 3540200207
830347429
I. Turing’s Life and Thoughts.- Alan Turing: an Introductory Biography.- Alan’s Apple: Hacking the Turing Test.- What Would Alan Turing Have Done After 1954?.- From Turing to the Information Society.- II. Computation and Turing Machines.- The Mechanization of Mathematics.- Hypercomputational Models.- Turing’s Ideas and Models of Computation.- The Myth of Hypercomputation.- Quantum Computers: the Church-Turing Hypothesis Versus the Turing Principle.- Implementation of a Self-replicating Universal Turing Machine.- Cognitive Science and the Turing Machine: an Ecological Perspective.- III. Artificial Intelligence and the Turing Test.- Can Machines Think?.- The Computer, Artificial Intelligence, and the Turing Test.- A Note on Enjoying Strawberries with Cream, Making Mistakes, and Other Idiotic Features.- Robots and Rule-Following.- The Law of Accelerating Returns.- IV. The Enigma.- The Polish Brains Behind the Breaking of the Enigma Code Before and During the Second World War.- Alan Turing at Bletchley Park in World War II.- Alan M. Turing’s Contributions to Co-operation Between the UK and the US.- V. Almost Forgotten Ideas.- Watching the Daisies Grow: Turing and Fibonacci Phyllotaxis.- Turing’s Connectionism.- List of Contributors.
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