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| | Description | Alan Turing was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the 20th century. This volume makes his key writings available to a non-specialist readership for the first time. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary computational theory, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence life all spring from this ground-breaking work. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Alan M. Turing | | Hardcover: | 600 pages | | Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA | | Publication Date: | November 18, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0198250797 | | Product Width: | 159.5 centimeters | | Product Height: | 236.5 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 2.35 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.29 inches | | Package Width: | 6.38 inches | | Package Height: | 1.65 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.34 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 a long overdue book Sep 12, 2005
By W Boudville
A long overdue book. Copeland collects together Turing's greatest papers. As in where Turing tackled the fundamentals of what is now called a Turing machine - ie. a universal computer. Plus other papers where Turing ruminated on artificial intelligence, and founded that field. Plus coming up with the Turing Test for AI.
Turing's papers are interleaved with chapters by Copeland that give extra context to the times in which Turing lived. Notably on Turing's crucial contribution to the Enigma project at Bletchley Park during World War 2. It is no exaggeration to say that his insight into decoding the German encryptions saved the lives of thousands of Allied soldiers.
Valuable also is a reprinting of Turing's "Treatise on the Enigma", which was only declassified in 1996. Though by then, its essence had been known for decades. Finally, the book lets you read Turing's words on Enigma.
11 of 15 found the following review helpful:
A valuable addition in paraphrasing Turing Mar 22, 2005
By Adnan Masood
Copeland's "Essential Turing" reviews Turning's major writings and is a valuable source of knowledge for computer scientists and avid CS/Mathematics readers alike. Turing was a brilliant British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer and is widely considered to be the father of computer science. This book doesn't portray him merely as a code breaker but also provides commentary on his brilliant foundation work as on Artificial intelligence. Discussion on the ultimate Turing test (proposal for a test of a machine's capability to perform human-like conversation) and Entscheidungs Problem is worth reading.
I shelve this book next to Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" which may state what it's worth.
23 of 35 found the following review helpful:
 A collection of Turing's papers Mar 01, 2005
By Tom Howard
Copeland's book is basically a collection of some of Turing's original papers, completed with a short introduction for each part of the book. I was disappointed by this book as (1) one can easily find copies of Turing's work on the web, (2) there is very little additional value in Copeland's comments, and (3) the papers are not reproduced in their original typeset and layout. Elsevier's "Collected Works of A. M. Turing" (4 volumes) does a much better job and offers Turing's complete work.
 The Essential Turing Sep 04, 2011
By Phillip Davidson
I had hoped more into the insights of Turing. This is a great hisitorical document about the development and logic of Turing's approaches to the issues of encryption, but it is not an easy read. This will have value to technology/history buffs who are very technically inclined, but it is not an easy read. This is a great collection of documents for a limited number of people.
4 of 7 found the following review helpful:
An excellent edition, long overdue Oct 25, 2005
By Dr. A. Eden
Enjoy this profound book by the father of the Digital Age. The Essential Turing is an excellent edition and long overdue. Turing's essential works are finally available in a single volume. Turing is one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century--he was rated up there with Einstein in Time magazine's 'The Century's Greatest Minds'. Copeland's lucid commentaries on Turing's work are fascinating and helpful. OUP is to be congratulated on putting Turing into the hands of the popular science book-buyer at long last.
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