num_pages: 153
description: The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man.
language: English
title: Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer
titlecomplete: Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer
characters: Alan Turing
genres: Technology, Biography, Science, Computers, Nonfiction, Mathematics, History
ratings_count: 109
series: Revolutions in Science, Icon Science
publisher: Icon,Totem Books