Turing

Pioneer of the Information Age

Jack Copeland

• Coincides with the centenary of Alan Turing's birth on June 23, 2012
• A biography of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century
• Reflects upon all aspects of his life and work - from his important role at Bletchley Park, and his contributions to articifial intelligence, to his tragic personal circumstances and death aged only 41
• Considers the legacy of his work today
• Written by the leading scholar on Turing's work

Turing

Pioneer of the Information Age

Jack Copeland

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Turing

Pioneer of the Information Age

Jack Copeland

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Turing

Pioneer of the Information Age

Jack Copeland

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Turing

Pioneer of the Information Age

Jack Copeland

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Posted on April 21, 2013

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Summing up Alan Turing

By Jack Copeland Three words to sum up Alan Turing? Humour. He had an impish, irreverent and infectious sense of humour. Courage. Isolation. He loved to work alone. Reading his scientific papers, it is almost as though the rest of the world -- the busy community of human minds working away on the same or related problems -- simply did not exist. Turing was determined to do it his way.

Posted on November 29, 2012

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Alan Turing, Code-Breaker

By Jack Copeland Germanyâs Army, Air Force, and Navy transmitted many thousands of coded messages each day during the Second World War. These ranged from top-level signals, such as detailed situation reports prepared by generals at the battle fronts and orders signed by Hitler himself, down to the important minutiae of war, such as weather reports and inventories of the contents of supply ships. Thanks to Turing and his fellow codebreakers, much of this information ended up in allied hands â sometimes within an hour or two of its being transmitted.

Posted on July 7, 2012

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