Turing and the Universal Machine
Subtitle: The Making of the Modern Computer (Revolutions of Science)
Publisher: Totem Books
Published: June 25, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781840462500
Subjects: General Theory of Computing; Popular science; Turing, Alan Mathison,; History; Science; Science/Mathematics; SCI; SCI000000; General; 1912-1954; Electronic digital computers
Description: 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.