The Turing Guide

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FURTHER READING, NOTES,

AND REFERENCES

The following sources (archives, books and Turing items) are referred to in the chapter notes as follows.


ARCHIVES



  • King’s College Archive: The Turing Papers in the Modern Archive Centre in the library of King’s
    College, Cambridge. Some of these are available electronically in the Turing Digital Archive:
    http://www.turingarchive.org.

  • Manchester Archive: National Archive for the History of Computing, University of Manchester.

  • NA: The National Archives, Kew, London.

  • The Turing Archive for the History of Computing: available online at http://www.alanturing.net.

  • Woodger Archive: the Michael Woodger Papers in the Science Museum, London.


BOOkS


Copeland (2004) (abbreviated in the Notes as The Essential Turing):
B. J. Copeland, The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial
Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma, Clarendon Press, Oxford (2004).


Copeland et al. (2005):
B. J. Copeland et al., Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine: the Master Codebreaker’s Struggle to
Build the Modern Computer, Oxford University Press (2005). New edition: Alan Turing’s Electronic
Brain: the Struggle to Build the ACE, the World’s Fastest Computer, Oxford University Press (centenary
edition published 2012).


Copeland et al. (2006):
B. J. Copeland, et al., Colossus: the Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Codebreaking Computers, Oxford University
Press, 2006 (paperback edition published 2010).


Copeland (2012) (abbreviated in the Notes as Turing (Copeland 2012)):
B. J. Copeland, Turing, Pioneer of the Information Age, Oxford University Press (2012).


Copeland et al. (2013):


B. J. Copeland, C. J. Posy, and O. Shagrir (eds), Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond, MIT
Press (2013).
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