The Essential Turing

The papers in this book are the key works for understanding Alan Turing's phenomenal contribution across the fields of mathematics, computing, artifical intelligence and artifical life. They include the declassified wartime "Treatise on Enigma", letters to Churchill, lectures and broadcasts.

A worthwhile addition to the growing body of material on Turing and related historical aspects of computing. The Essential Turing is a must for any library or individual wanting a comprehensive academic collection on Turing computation.

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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.

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Alan Turing 1912-1954; Computable Numbers: A Guide; 1. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidensproblem (1936); 2. On Computable Numbers: Corrections and Critiques; 3. Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938); 4. Letters on Logic to Max Newman (c. 1940); Enigma; 5. History of Hut 8 to December 1941 (1845); 6. Bombe and Spider (1940); 7. Letter to Winston Churchill (1941); 8. Memorandum to OP-20-G on Naval Enigma (c. 1941); Artificial Intelligence; 9. Lecture on the Automatic Computing Machine (1947); 10. Intelligent Machinery (1948); 11. Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950); 12. Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory (c. 1951); 13. Can Digital Computers Think?; 14. Can Automatic Calculating Machines Be Said to Think? (1952); Artificial Life; 15. The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952); 16. Chess (1953); 17. Solvable and Unsolvable Problems (1954)