Turings Revolution

Author : Giovanni Sommaruga
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3319221566
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turing’s Revolution written by Giovanni Sommaruga and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the confluence of ideas in Turing’s era and work and examines the impact of his work on mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. It combines contributions by well-known scientists on the history and philosophy of computability theory as well as on generalised Turing computability. By looking at the roots and at the philosophical and technical influence of Turing’s work, it is possible to gather new perspectives and new research topics which might be considered as a continuation of Turing’s working ideas well into the 21st century.

Author : Chris Bernhardt
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034549
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turing's Vision written by Chris Bernhardt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all modern computers. This groundbreaking and powerful theory now forms the basis of computer science. In Turing's Vision, Chris Bernhardt explains the theory, Turing's most important contribution, for the general reader. Bernhardt argues that the strength of Turing's theory is its simplicity, and that, explained in a straightforward manner, it is eminently understandable by the nonspecialist. As Marvin Minsky writes, "The sheer simplicity of the theory's foundation and extraordinary short path from this foundation to its logical and surprising conclusions give the theory a mathematical beauty that alone guarantees it a permanent place in computer theory." Bernhardt begins with the foundation and systematically builds to the surprising conclusions. He also views Turing's theory in the context of mathematical history, other views of computation (including those of Alonzo Church), Turing's later work, and the birth of the modern computer. In the paper, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," Turing thinks carefully about how humans perform computation, breaking it down into a sequence of steps, and then constructs theoretical machines capable of performing each step. Turing wanted to show that there were problems that were beyond any computer's ability to solve; in particular, he wanted to find a decision problem that he could prove was undecidable. To explain Turing's ideas, Bernhardt examines three well-known decision problems to explore the concept of undecidability; investigates theoretical computing machines, including Turing machines; explains universal machines; and proves that certain problems are undecidable, including Turing's problem concerning computable numbers.

Author : Giovanni Sommaruga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783319221571
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turing's Revolution written by Giovanni Sommaruga and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the confluence of ideas in Turing's era and work and examines the impact of his work on mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. It combines contributions by well-known scientists on the history and philosophy of computability theory as well as on generalised Turing computability. By looking at the roots and at the philosophical and technical influence of Turing's work, it is possible to gather new perspectives and new research topics which might be considered as a continuation of Turing's working ideas well into the 21st century.

Author : Jon Agar
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785782533
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science) written by Jon Agar and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man.

Author : George Dyson
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375422773
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turing's Cathedral written by George Dyson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the innovations of a group of eccentric geniuses who developed computer code in the mid-20th century as part of mathematician Alan Turin's theoretical universal machine idea, exploring how their ideas led to such developments as digital television, modern genetics and the hydrogen bomb.

Author : Juliet Floyd
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319532804
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing written by Juliet Floyd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters “Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate” and “Turing and the History of Computer Music” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Jack Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191065013
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turing Guide written by Jack Copeland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work. This volume will bring together contributions from some of the leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide to Turing that will serve as a useful resource for researchers in the area as well as the increasingly interested general reader. The book will cover aspects of Turing's life and the wide range of his intellectual activities, including mathematics, code-breaking, computer science, logic, artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, as well as his subsequent influence.

Author : S. Barry Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107010837
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Once and Future Turing written by S. Barry Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays by world-leading researchers reveal Alan Turing's lasting contributions to modern research.

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199606722
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Revolution written by Luciano Floridi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that information and communication technologies have fundamentally changed the way people relate to others, proposing a new view of ethics and ecology that considers the implications of the infosphere.

Author : Jeffrey M. Binder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226822540
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and the Rise of the Algorithm written by Jeffrey M. Binder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging history of the algorithm. Bringing together the histories of mathematics, computer science, and linguistic thought, Language and the Rise of the Algorithm reveals how recent developments in artificial intelligence are reopening an issue that troubled mathematicians well before the computer age: How do you draw the line between computational rules and the complexities of making systems comprehensible to people? By attending to this question, we come to see that the modern idea of the algorithm is implicated in a long history of attempts to maintain a disciplinary boundary separating technical knowledge from the languages people speak day to day. Here Jeffrey M. Binder offers a compelling tour of four visions of universal computation that addressed this issue in very different ways: G. W. Leibniz’s calculus ratiocinator; a universal algebra scheme Nicolas de Condorcet designed during the French Revolution; George Boole’s nineteenth-century logic system; and the early programming language ALGOL, short for algorithmic language. These episodes show that symbolic computation has repeatedly become entangled in debates about the nature of communication. Machine learning, in its increasing dependence on words, erodes the line between technical and everyday language, revealing the urgent stakes underlying this boundary. The idea of the algorithm is a levee holding back the social complexity of language, and it is about to break. This book is about the flood that inspired its construction.