The Essential Turing

TRAMA

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidensproblem (1936)2 - On Computable Numbers: Corrections and Critiques3 - Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals (1938)4 - Letters on Logic to Max Newman (c. 1940)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)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)15 - The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952)16 - Chess (1953)17 - Solvable and Unsolvable Problems (1954)

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198250791
• Dimensioni: 242 x 39.2 x 163 mm Ø 1073 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: numerous line drawings and halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 620