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Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker
Christof Teuscher
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Description for Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker
Hardcover. A collection of essays in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Alan Turing. It covers the various facets of his life, thoughts, and legacy. It provides a critical essay on a controversial field termed hypercomputation. Editor(s): Teuscher, Christof. Num Pages: 542 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 166 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1140.
Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker is the definitive collection of essays in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Alan Turing. This fascinating text covers the rich facets of his life, thoughts, and legacy, but also sheds some light on the future of computing science with a chapter contributed by visionary Ray Kurzweil, winner of the 1999 National Medal of Technology. Further, important contributions come from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Turing biographer Andrew Hodges, and from the distinguished logician Martin Davis, who provides a first critical essay on an ... Read more
Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker is the definitive collection of essays in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Alan Turing. This fascinating text covers the rich facets of his life, thoughts, and legacy, but also sheds some light on the future of computing science with a chapter contributed by visionary Ray Kurzweil, winner of the 1999 National Medal of Technology. Further, important contributions come from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Turing biographer Andrew Hodges, and from the distinguished logician Martin Davis, who provides a first critical essay on an ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
1139g
Number of Pages
542
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540200208
SKU
V9783540200208
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Ref
99-15
About Christof Teuscher
Christof Teuscher holds an electronic engineer degree and received the diploma degree in computer engineering (equivalent to a MSCS degree) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) in 2000. Since then, he has been a research and teaching assistant in the Logic Systems Laboratory at EPFL, pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the field of biologically-inspired computing machines. ... Read more
Reviews for Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker
From the reviews: This is a wonderful book, which does deliver what it promises; and that is no small feat. ... One of the things that I like in the book is its sense of fun. ... It is beautifully written and contains a very nice survey of ... Read more