The Turing Guide
62 | 7 HIlBERT AND HIS fAmOUS PROBlEm a vast quantity of other truths about natural numbers can be deduced: for example, that mu ...
COPElAND | 63 Hilbert emphasized that a ‘general solution of the decision problem . . . does not yet exist’, but his 1928 accoun ...
64 | 7 HIlBERT AND HIS fAmOUS PROBlEm going to fit into the usual student–supervisor pattern. Unfortunately, no spark seems to h ...
COPElAND | 65 however, intuition is no longer needed: from there on, everything is just a matter of follow- ing the rules. In hi ...
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CHAPTER 8 Turing and the origins of digital computers brian randell I n this chapter I describe my initial attempts at investiga ...
68 | 8 TURING AND THE ORIGINS Of DIGITAl COmPUTERS With the help of a number of Irish librarians and archivists I managed to fin ...
RANDEll | 69 was what the Foreign Office ‘euphemistically called its Department of Communications’—that is, it was the centre of ...
70 | 8 TURING AND THE ORIGINS Of DIGITAl COmPUTERS The obituary notice for Turing mentioned by Michie was written by Professor M ...
RANDEll | 71 myself and possibly to mathematicians like Alan Turing, was that we acquired a new understand- ing of and familiari ...
72 | 8 TURING AND THE ORIGINS Of DIGITAl COmPUTERS were to be stepped through these data were generated internally from stored c ...
RANDEll | 73 The most obvious aspect of the concept is the idea of holding the program that is control- ling the operation of a ...
74 | 8 TURING AND THE ORIGINS Of DIGITAl COmPUTERS In my view, Lady Lovelace’s 1843 account of programming (which even includes ...
RANDEll | 75 directed by Max Newman and Tommy Flowers, and with which Alan Turing was associated, had built a working special-pu ...
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CHAPTER 9 At Bletchley Park jack copeland This chapter summarizes Turing’s principal achievements at Bletchley Park and assesses ...
80 | 9 AT BlETCHlEy PARk 84,000 Enigma messages each month—two messages every minute.^5 Chapter 12 describes the bombes and expl ...
COPElAND | 81 The Tunny teleprinter communications network, a harbinger of today’s mobile phone net- works, spanned Europe and N ...
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