Alan Turing : Life and legacy of a great thinker

Christof Teuscher, Collectif Springer

570 pages, parution le 17/12/2003

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Alan Turing's fundamental contributions to computing led to the development of modern computing technology, and his work continues to inspire researchers in computing science and beyond. This book is the definitive collection of commemorative essays, and the distinguished contributors have expertise in such diverse fields as artificial intelligence, natural computing, mathematics, physics, cryptology, cognitive studies, philosophy and anthropology.

The volume spans the entire rich spectrum of Turing's life, research work and legacy. New light is shed on the future of computing science by visionary Ray Kurzweil. Notable contributions come from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Turing biographer Andrew Hodges, and the distinguished logician Martin Davis, who provides a first critical essay on an emerging and controversial field termed hypercomputation. A special feature of the book is the play by Valeria Patera which tackles the scandal surrounding the last apple, and presents as an enigma the life, death and destiny of the man who did so much to decipher the Enigma code during the Second World War.

Other chapters are modern reappraisals of Turing's work on computability, and deal with the major philosophical questions raised by the Turing Test, while the book also contains essays addressing his less well-known ideas on Fibonacci phyllotaxis and connectionism.

Contributors : Michael Beeson ; Daniela Cerqui ; B. Jack Copeland ; Martin Davis ;Daniel Dennett ; Eugene Eberbach; Lee A. Gladwin; Dina Q Goldin ; Andrew Hodges; Douglas Hofstadter; Ray Kurzweil ; Daniel Mange; Valeria Patera ; Diane Proudfoot ; Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson ; Hector Fabio Restrepo; Tony Sale; Helmut Schnelle; Mike Stannett; Jonathan Swinton; Gianluca Tempesti; Christof Teuscher; Christopher G. Timpson; Peter Wegner; Andrew J. Wells

Turing's Life and Thoughts
- Alan Turing: an Introductory Biography
- Alan's Apple: Hacking the Turing Test
- What Would Alan Turing Have Done After 1954?
- From Turing to the Information Society
Computation and Turing Machines
- The Mechanization of Mathematics
- Hypercomputational Models
- Turing's Ideas and Models of Computation
- The Myth of Hypercomputation
- Quantum Computers: the Church-Turing Hypothesis Versus the Turing Principle
- Implementation of a Self-replicating Universal Turing Machine
- Cognitive Science and the Turing Machine: an Ecological Perspective
Artificial Intelligence and the Turing Test
- Can Machines Think?
- The Computer, Artificial Intelligence, and the Turing Test.
- A Note on Enjoying Strawberries with Cream, Making Mistakes, and Other Idiotic Features
- Robots and Rule-Following
- The Law of Accelerating Returns
The Enigma
- The Polish Brains Behind the Breaking of the Enigma Code. Before and During the Second World War
- Alan Turing at Bletchley Park in World War II
- Alan M. Turing's Contributions to Co-operation Between the UK and the US
Almost Forgotten Ideas
- Watching the Daisies Grow: Turing and Fibonacci Phyllotaxis
- Turing's Connectionism
List of Contributors
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Christof Teuscher, Collectif Springer
Parution	17/12/2003
Nb. de pages	570
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1180g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9783540200208