Alan M. Turing

'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised until his contribution to the breaking...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Turing, Sara, 1881-1976, autor (autor), Davis, Martin, 1928- writer of foreword (writer of foreword), Turing, John, writer of afterword (writer of afterword)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2012.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Family background
  • Childhood and early boyhood
  • At Sherborne School
  • At Cambridge
  • At the graduate college, Princeton
  • Some characteristics
  • War work in the foreign office
  • At the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington
  • Work with the Manchester Automatic Digital Machine
  • Broadcasts and intelligent machinery
  • Morphogenesis
  • Relaxation
  • Last days and some tributes
  • Computing machinery
  • Theory of morphogenesis considered.