The Turing Guide
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CHAPTER 1 Life and work jack copeland and jonathan bowen A few months after Alan Turing’s tragically early death, in 1954, his c ...
4 | 1 lIfE AND wORk There was more. In addition to his codebreaking, which saved untold millions of lives, and his remarkable th ...
COPElAND & BOwEN | 5 As she departed again for her next stint in India, she was left with the painful memory of his rushing ...
6 | 1 lIfE AND wORk figure 1.3 ‘Watching the daisies grow’: Alan Turing drawn by his mother Sara. Reproduced with thanks to the ...
COPElAND & BOwEN | 7 1934 Passes his final Cambridge exams with flying colours: first-class honours with distinction, or ‘B ...
8 | 1 lIfE AND wORk Starts work on German Naval Enigma. Deduces the special method of protection used for transmissions to and f ...
COPElAND & BOwEN | 9 1941 Breaks into current U-boat transmissions for the first time, giving merchant convoys crossing the ...
10 | 1 lIfE AND wORk (^1943) Works on speech encryption in New York’s Bell Labs. Meets Claude Shannon. Returns from the United S ...
COPElAND & BOwEN | 11 1946 Presents his report ‘Proposed electronic calculator’ to the NPL’s Executive Committee. This conta ...
12 | 1 lIfE AND wORk 1948 Writes AI’s first manifesto, titled ‘Intelligent machinery’. In this he invents the concepts of a gene ...
COPElAND & BOwEN | 13 1950 Runs a program for calculating values of the zeta-function. Reports that the program ran from mid ...
14 | 1 lIfE AND wORk 1953 Uses Ferranti Mark I to model biological growth. Also uses the computer as a primitive word processor. ...
COPElAND & BOwEN | 15 police pathologist, who thought that Turing had drunk cyanide dissolved in water, said only that the a ...
16 | 1 lIfE AND wORk figure 1.6 The post-mortem report, with handwritten notes by Sara Turing. King’s College Library, Cambridge ...
COPElAND & BOwEN | 17 Turing might have committed suicide, but then again he might not. We shall most probably never know. P ...
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CHAPTER 2 The man with the terrible trousers sir john dermot turing M y uncle, Alan Turing, was not a well-dressed man. It is a ...
20 | 2 THE mAN wITH THE TERRIBlE TROUSERS would probably have become a scientist of distinction.) So Alan was deposited in Engla ...
SIR JOHN DERmOT TURING | 21 Dear Mother and Daddy. I have started writing with my fountain pen again, please tell me if you thin ...
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