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The Turing Guide (2017), written by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak,^[1] Robin Wilson, and others, is a book about the work and life of the British mathematician, philosopher, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954).

Overview

The book includes 42 contributed chapters by a variety of authors, including some contemporaries of Alan Turing. The book was published in January 2017 by Oxford University Press,^[2] in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats.

Contents

The Turing Guide is divided into eight main parts, covering various aspects of Alan Turing’s life and work:

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 the field of theoretical computer science.

Codebreaker: Turing’s work on codebreaking during World War II at Bletchley Park, especially the Bombe for decrypting the German Enigma machine.

Computers after the War: Turing’s post-War work on computing, at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and at the University of Manchester. He made contributions to both hardware design, through the ACE computer (later implemented as the Pilot ACE) at the NPL, and software, especially at Manchester using the Manchester Baby computer, later the Manchester Mark 1 and Ferranti Mark 1.

Artificial Intelligence and the Mind: Turing’s pioneering and philosophical contribution to machine intelligence (now known as Artificial Intelligence or AI), including the Turing test.

Biological Growth: Morphogenesis, Turing’s last major scientific contribution, on the generation of complex patterns through chemical processes in biology and on the mathematics behind them, foundational in mathematical biology.

Mathematics: Some of Turing’s mathematical achievements, including one of his most significant influences, Max Newman.

Finale: Turing in a wider subsequent context, including his influence and legacy to science and in the public consciousness.

The book includes a foreword by Andrew Hodges, preface, notes on the contributors, endnotes, and an index.

Contributors

Reviews

The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including:^[3]

See also

References

1. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/people/mark-sprevak | title=Mark Sprevak | publisher=University of Edinburgh | location=UK }}
2. ^{{cite web| url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-turing-guide-9780198747833 | title=The Turing Guide | publisher=Oxford University Press | date=2017 }}
3. ^{{cite web| url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-turing-guide-9780198747826?cc=gb&lang=en&# | title=The Turing Guide: Reviews and Awards | publisher=Oxford University Press | accessdate=10 December 2017 }}
4. ^{{cite web| url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0198747829 | title=Customer Reviews: The Turing Guide | website=Amazon.co.uk | publisher=Amazon | date=2017 }}
5. ^{{cite journal| last=Lenton | first=Dominic | url=https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2017/03/book-review-the-turing-guide-alan-turings-life-and-work/ | title=Book reviews: The Turing Guide, Alan Turing's life and work | journal=Engineering & Technology | date=14 March 2017 }}
6. ^{{cite journal| authorlink=Cliff Jones (computer scientist)| last=Jones | first=Cliff | title=The Turing Guide | journal=Formal Aspects of Computing | volume=29 | pages=1121–1122 | year=2017 | doi=10.1007/s00165-017-0446-y }}
7. ^{{cite web| last=Clegg | first=Brian | url=https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1918232179 | title=Brian Clegg's Reviews > The Turing Guide | website=Goodreads | date=19 February 2017 }}
8. ^{{cite web| last=Schulte | first=Tom | url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-turing-guide | title=The Turing Guide: MAA Review | publisher=Mathematical Association of America | date=4 July 2017 }}
9. ^{{cite journal| authorlink=W. Andrew Robinson | last=Robinson | first=Andrew | url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331072-700-the-turing-guide-last-words-on-an-enigmatic-codebreaker/ | title=The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker? | journal=New Scientist | date=4 January 2017 }}
10. ^{{cite journal| last=Petrocelli | first=Carla | url=http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/18253911-03301015 | title=The Turing Guide, by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, and Robin Wilson | journal=Nuncius | volume=33 | number=1 | pages=166–168 | doi=10.1163/18253911-03301015 | publisher=Brill | date=2018 }}
11. ^{{cite journal| authorlink=Vint Cerf | last=Cerf | first=Vint | url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/2018/jan/18/the-man-behind-the-machine | title=The man behind the machine | journal=Physics World | date=January 2018 | pages=38–39 }}
12. ^{{cite web| last=Han | first=Bao | url=https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JcdromoslivadmFmEf8SVQ | title= 枷锁与馈赠|认识真实的图灵，一位如谜的解谜者 | language=Chinese | publisher=WeChat | date=3 April 2018 }}

External links

[https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198747837/bookseaiam Amazon USA information]

[https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198747837/booksearch06 Amazon UK information]