The Turing Guide

462 | 41 is the whole universe a computer? Penrose even named this claim ‘Turing’s thesis’. But, as we shall see, Turing never e ...

CHAPTER 42 Turing’s legacy jonathan bowen and jack copeland I n terms of public appreciation Turing has risen quickly from zero ...

464 | 42 TURING’S lEGACy In his personal life Turing was a victim of his times. To be an active homosexual in those dark days wa ...

BOwEN & COPElAND | 465 (1997) and John Casti’s The Cambridge Quintet (1998) both contained rich treatments of Turing aimed a ...

466 | 42 TURING’S lEGACy every computer science student and called the ‘halting problem’ is based on the Turing machine concept: ...

BOwEN & COPElAND | 467 Turing’s legacy extends to his impact on the institutions where he worked. Manchester University went ...

468 | 42 TURING’S lEGACy evidence, apart from letters written in 1930 at the time of Morcom’s sudden death. In a letter to Morco ...

BOwEN & COPElAND | 469 hackneyed image of Turing dipping an apple into cyanide and committing suicide—‘all true’ the Spectat ...

470 | 42 TURING’S lEGACy Turing has been extensively celebrated in music. One of the earliest Turing songs was Steve Pride’s ‘Al ...

BOwEN & COPElAND | 471 the movie, Jobs admits that in fact there was no connection, but wishes that the rumours were true.^3 ...

472 | 42 TURING’S lEGACy In 2011 an e-petition on a UK government website requested an official pardon. Justice Secretary Lord M ...

BOwEN & COPElAND | 473 degree, the harder the problem that the set characterizes. For example, the set of numbers of Turing ...

474 | 42 TURING’S lEGACy The Turing Institute was an AI laboratory in Glasgow, Scotland, that was established by one of Turing’s ...

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Ruth E. Baker is Assistant Professor of Mathematical Biology at the Mathematical Institute, University ...

476 | NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Brian E. Carpenter is an Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland. H ...

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS | 477 Joel Greenberg is an educational technology consultant with 35 years’ experience in the field. H ...

478 | NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Bull ...

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS | 479 and Beyond (with Jack Copeland and Carl Posy, 2013) and a special volume on the history of moder ...

480 | NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS popularizer of mathematics, he was awarded the Mathematical Association of America’s Lester Ford ...

FURTHER READING, NOTES, AND REFERENCES The following sources (archives, books and Turing items) are referred to in the chapter n ...