Alan Turing was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the 20th century. This volume makes his key writings available to a non-specialist readership for the first time. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary computational theory, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence life all spring from this ground-breaking work.
Author(s): Alan M. Turing
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 623
Tags: Информатика и вычислительная техника;История информатики и вычислительной техники;
Contents......Page 9
Alan Turing 1912–1954......Page 11
Computable Numbers: A Guide......Page 15
1. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936)......Page 68
2. On Computable Numbers: Corrections and Critiques......Page 101
3. Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938), including excerpts from Turing’s correspondence, 1936–1938......Page 135
4. Letters on Logic to Max Newman (c.1940)......Page 215
Enigma......Page 227
5. History of Hut 8 to December 1941 (1945), featuring an excerpt from Turing’s ‘Treatise on the Enigma’......Page 275
6. Bombe and Spider (1940)......Page 323
7. Letter to Winston Churchill (1941)......Page 346
8. Memorandum to OP-20-G on Naval Enigma (c.1941)......Page 351
Artificial Intelligence......Page 363
9. Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine (1947)......Page 372
10. Intelligent Machinery (1948)......Page 405
11. Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)......Page 443
12. Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory (c.1951)......Page 475
13. Can Digital Computers Think? (1951)......Page 486
14. Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said to Think? (1952)......Page 497
Artificial Life......Page 517
15. The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952)......Page 529
16. Chess (1953)......Page 572
17. Solvable and Unsolvable Problems (1954)......Page 586
A......Page 607
B......Page 608
C......Page 609
D......Page 611
E......Page 612
G......Page 613
H......Page 614
L......Page 615
M......Page 616
O......Page 617
P......Page 618
S......Page 619
T......Page 620
U......Page 622
Z......Page 623
