ISBN: 9780393052367

The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calcul… Mehr…

The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies' victory in World War II. In so doing, Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, formulating the famous (and still unbeaten) Turing Test that challenges our ideas of human consciousness. But Turing's postwar computer-building was cut short when, as an openly gay man in a time when homosexuality was officially illegal in England, he was apprehended by the authorities and sentenced to a "treatment" that amounted to chemical castration, leading to his suicide. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor--while elegantly explaining his work and its implications. Media > Book, [PU: W. W. Norton]<

2006, ISBN: 9780393052367

New York : W. W. Norton, ©2006.. Hard Cover. 319 p. : illus. ; index, 21 cm. This isn't quite a biography, but rather an attempt to trace the strands of Tur… Mehr…

New York : W. W. Norton, ©2006.. Hard Cover. 319 p. : illus. ; index, 21 cm. This isn't quite a biography, but rather an attempt to trace the strands of Turing's life: how his literalness, his homosexuality intertwined with his interest in artificial intelligence. How mathematical theory and philosophy realized practical machine applications that led to computers. Stock# 45,139, Vg / dj vg., New York : W. W. Norton, ©2006., 0<

2006, ISBN: 0393052362

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[EAN: 9780393052367], [SC: 0.0], [PU: W. W. Norton], Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages., Books<

2006, ISBN: 9780393052367

New York: Atlas Books/W.W. Norton, 2006. Hardcover. 319p., notes, further reading, index, illustrated with tables, figures and photos, fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Grea… Mehr…

New York: Atlas Books/W.W. Norton, 2006. Hardcover. 319p., notes, further reading, index, illustrated with tables, figures and photos, fine first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Great Discoveries Series., Atlas Books/W.W. Norton, 2006, 0<