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Published by Icon,Totem Books, 2001
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- Title
- Turing and the Universal Machi
- Author
- Agar, Jon
- Publisher
- Icon,Totem Books
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1840462507
- ISBN 13
- 9781840462500
- Series
- Book 9 of 12: Icon Science
Alan Turning is widely known as the cryptographer extraordinaire of Bletchly Park, the man who broke the Nazi Enigma code. He has also been described as the father of the modern computer, dreaming of a machine that could think adn inaugurating a scientific revolution that we are deep in the midst of today. His work entailed too a challenge to the science of ourselves, exploring the limits between the human and technological.
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About the Author
Jon Agar is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at UCL. He has written on the history of radio-astronomy, computing, and mobile phones, and his most recent book, Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, surveys the history of science across the twentieth century. He also co-edited Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (UCL Press).
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