The Turing Guide

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Washington Post newspaper 15, 177, 272
Watson program, see IBM
Watson, James 3, 29, 37, 369–70, 380
Wavendon outstation 113, 116
Webb, Mrs 39
Weierstrass, Karl 437
Welchman, Gordon 95, 102, 105–6, 112,
124–5, 127, 180, 191, 193, 464
Wellington, Duke of 173–4
West End, see London West End
Weyl, Hermann 441
wheel order, see Enigma
wheel pattern 150, 165–6, 170, 172
Wheeler, David 214, 229
Whelan, Ronald 417
Whirlwind computer 53, 229
Whitehall, see UK Government
Whitehead, Alfred North 438, 441
Whitemore, Hugh 32, 181, 467
Wiener, Norbert 438
Wigderson, Avi 434
Wikipedia 420, 472
Wilkes, Maurice 49, 53, 203, 214, 216, 221,
227, 229, 463
Wilkinson, James H. 215, 218, 227, 261
Williams, Freddie 12, 25, 49, 51, 53,
199–210, 214, 233, 239
photograph 200
Williams tube memory 199–202, 208, 210,
239, 342

Wilmslow (Cheshire) 13, 14, 36, 38–9, 468

Hollymeade 13, 14, 36, 38–9, 468

Wilson, Snoo 467

Winterbotham, Frederick 25, 175, 191

Wirth, Niklaus 465

photograph 465

Wirtinger, Wilhelm 440

Wittgenstein, Ludwig 7, 442, 447, 454

Woburn Abbey (Bedfordshire) 161,

163–4, 166

Woking Crematorium 14

Wolfenden, Sir John 28

Wolfram, Stephen 43ff, 365, 448–9

Wolfram|Alpha 44, 47

Women’s Royal Naval Service

(WRNS) 111, 114, 129, 161, 163–4,

477, 479, see also Wr e n s

bombe operation 111, 114–5

bombe training 25–7

Colossus operation 156–7

Regulating Office 161

Womersley, John 10, 52, 68, 214, 216,

224–5

portrait 225

Woodger, Mike 215–16, 218, 230

word problem, see mathematics

word processor 14, 50, 212

Wrens 109, 111–5, 122–3, 125–6, 129,

140–1, 163–4, 417, 425, see also

WRNS

Wright brothers 3, 342

WRNS, see Women’s Royal Naval Service

Wylie, Shaun 166, 192, 471

Wynn Williams, C. E. 71

X

XPRIZE Foundation 292, 297, see also IBM

Y

Yule, Udny 133

Z

Z3 computer, see Zuse, Konrad

Zabell, Sandy 393

Zagier, Don 397, 404

Zarkadakis, George 467

zebra 350, 366, 373, 374

illustration 368

Zener, Karl 349

Zener cards 349–50, 356

zeta function, see Riemann zeta function

Zuse, Konrad 49–50, 179, 226, 330, 448–9,

451–3

photograph 449

Z3 computer 449

Zygalski, Henryk 101, 103

Zygalski sheets 102, 105