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In June 2002 it was chosen by Michael Holroyd for inclusion in a list of 50 "essential" books (available in print at the time) in The Guardian. [8] Alan Turing: The Enigma formed the basis of Hugh Whitemore's 1986 stage play Breaking the Code, which was adapted for television in 1996, with Derek Jacobi as Turing. The book was later made into ...
Doubts on the suicide thesis have been also cast by John W. Dawson Jr. who, in his review of Hodges' book, recalls "Turing's vulnerable position in the Cold War political climate" and points out that "Turing was found dead by a maid, who discovered him 'lying neatly in his bed'—hardly what one would expect of "a man fighting for life against ...
The Turing Guide is divided into eight main parts, covering various aspects of Alan Turing's life and work: [3]. Biography: Biographical aspects of Alan Turing.; The Universal Machine and Beyond: Turing's universal machine (now known as a Turing machine), developed while at King's College, Cambridge, which provides a theoretical framework for reasoning about computation, a starting point for ...
Books about Alan Turing (1912–1954). Pages in category "Books about Alan Turing" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Alan Turing, 1938 [1] Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American computer scientist , mathematician , logician , and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science . [ 2 ]
In 2015, he wrote a book on Alan Turing, Prof: Alan Turing Decoded, [9] and in 2017 he contributed a chapter to The Turing Guide. [10] He is a member of the European Post-Trade Forum and a trustee of the Turing Trust. His interests also include cryptanalysis and naval history. [11]
Jack Copeland is the Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, [6] an extensive online archive on the computing pioneer Alan Turing. He has also written and edited books on Turing. He is one of the people responsible for identifying the concept of hypercomputation and machines more capable than Turing machines.
Alan Turing's biographer Andrew Hodges dates the creation of the love letter generator, also known as M.U.C., to the summer of 1952, when Strachey was working with Turing, although Gaboury dates its creation to 1953. [2]