Once and Future Turing : Computing the World

Cooper, S. Barry (EDT); Hodges, Andrew (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1107010837 / ISBN 13: 9781107010833

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Once and Future Turing : Computing the World

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

Alan Turing (1912-1954) made seminal contributions to mathematical logic, computation, computer science, artificial intelligence, cryptography and theoretical biology. In this volume, outstanding scientific thinkers take a fresh look at the great range of Turing's contributions, on how the subjects have developed since his time, and how they might develop still further. The contributors include Martin Davis, J. M. E. Hyland, Andrew R. Booker, Ueli Maurer, Kanti V. Mardia, S. Barry Cooper, Stephen Wolfram, Christof Teuscher, Douglas Richard Hofstadter, Philip K. Maini, Thomas E. Woolley, Eamonn A. Gaffney, Ruth E. Baker, Richard Gordon, Stuart Kauffman, Scott Aaronson, Solomon Feferman, P. D. Welch and Roger Penrose. These specially commissioned essays will provoke and engross the reader who wishes to understand better the lasting significance of one of the twentieth century's deepest thinkers.

Book Description:

Alan Turing made a seminal contribution to various fields. Here, original essays bring new thinking to a range of Turing's ideas and demonstrate their relevance to modern research. It will provoke and engross the reader interested in the lasting significance of one of the twentieth century's deepest thinkers.