index
A
A. M. Turing Award 17, 215, 465, 473
photograph 465
Aarhus, see Turing Bygning
Abwehr, see German military intelligence
accelerating Turing machine 457–9
ACE, see Automatic Computing Engine
Ackermann, Wilhelm 65
ACM, see Association for Computing
Machinery
Adelphi Hotel (London) 11, 204–6, 216
Admiralty, see UK Government
Room 40 21, 97
Adstock outstation 113
Agnus Dei, see bombe
Agrawal, Manindra 435
AI, see artificial intelligence
Aiken, Howard 11, 49–50
Al Qaeda 82
Alan Turing Building 473
Guildford 474
Manchester University 474
Open University 474
photograph 473
Alan Turing Institute (London) 474
Alan Turing law 472
Alan Turing Road 474
Guildford 474
Loughborough 474
Alan Turing Way (Manchester) 474
Alan Turing Year 29, 195
Alexander, Hugh 95, 106, 112–13, 115,
131, 137–40, 328, 419–20, 422, 425–6
Alexander, Samuel 49, 53
Alexandria 105
algebra 257–9, 391, 407, 429, 438
Algol programming language 230
algorithm design 434–5
algorithmic randomness, see randomness
A-Life, see artificial life
Allied invasion, see Second World War
Allied victory, see Second World War
AlphaGo program 297–9
Althöfer, Ingo 344–5
America, see United States
analytical engine 67, 73, 134, 257–62, 446
diagram 256
Analytical Society 250
anti-gay legislation 17, 464
Antiques Roadshow television
programme 194
Apple Computer, Inc. 470
Siri program 295
Argonne Version of the Institute’s Digital
Automatic Computer, see AVIDAC
Aristotle 302
artificial intelligence 4, 11, 17, 37, 46, 47,
210, 223, 224, 265ff, 305, 309, 360,
388, 433, 464, 465, 464–6, see also
intelligence
and child machines 315–18
and the bombe 265–6
and the mind 277ff
Loebner Prize 306
Turing test 287ff
artificial life 13, 359ff
artificial neuron 309, 309, 311
Asai, Rigito 378
ASD, see autism spectrum disorder
Ashby, W. Ross 280
Association for Computing Machinery 55,
215, 465
Association of Symbolic Logic 438
Atahualpa 360, 369
Atanasoff, John 49
Atlantic Ocean, see Battle of the Atlantic
ATM, see accelerating Turing machine
Atomic Energy Authority 219
Atomic Weapons Research
Establishment 38, 219, 335
A-type machine 317, 319
Auckland, see Turing Building, Auckland
Augarten, Stan 464
autism spectrum disorder 320Automatic Computing Engine 10, 11,
51–2, 56, 69, 74, 159, 201, 205–6, 207,
209, 213ff, 224ff, 260, 445–6, 464
chess 288
context 214–15
design 215–16
ideas 224–7
legacy 219–20
photograph 52, 217, 221
Pilot ACE 52, 216–17, 467
programming 217–19
proposal 224–6
subroutine library 218
trace program 218
Avenida Alan Turing (Campinas) 474
AVIDAC 200
axioms 61–65, see also Peano axioms
Axis cipher 82
Ayer, Freddie 441B
Baa Baa Black Sheep 237, 239–240, 246–7
Babbage, Charles 49, 67–9, 71, 73–4, 110,
134, 158, 176, 227, 249–51, 253–5,
257–62, 446
Babbage, Georgiana 250
Babbage, Henry Provost 251, 261–2
B aby, see Manchester Baby
Bach, J. S. 464
BAFTA 193
Awards 174
Banburismus 8, 92, 123, 129ff, 415ff
Banbury 135–8, 415, 421–2
chain 415, 422–3
comic strip 423–5
cribbing 415, 422–3
depth 131–3, 415–16
description 131
factor method 425
photograph 130, 136
punched holes 133–4