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Turings imitation game by kevin warwick cambridge core. Books by alan turing author of computing machinery and. Alan mathison turing was born on june 23, 1912 in paddington, london hodges. In late 1940 alan turing wrote a report describing the methods he and his colleagues at bletchley park had used to break into the german enigma cipher systems. This puzzle book includes a foreword written by sir dermot turing, nephew of alan turing and trustee of bletchley park, the former british codebreaking hq where alan turing worked. Alan turing 19121954 is known as the father of computer science. The collected works of turing, including a substantial amount of unpublished material, will comprise four volumes. Will computers and robots ever think and communicate the way humans do. Listed as one of the essential 50 books of all time in the guardian inspired the academy awardnominated film, the imitation game its only a slight exaggeration to say that the british mathematician alan turing 19121954 saved the allies from the nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by. A facsimile edition of alan turing s influential princeton thesis. But looking through the card catalog at the caltech library one day, i chanced upon a book called alan m.
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