Turing and the Universal Machine : The Making of the Modern Computer

Turing and the Universal Machine : The Making of the Modern Computer

Editorial Reviews
New Scientist magazine, May 26th, 2001
Try Jon Agar's Turing and the Universal Machine. His excellent treatment [is] highly readable, of general interest and a useful introduction to the subject.

Book Description
Alan Turning is widely known as the cryptographer extraordinaire of Bletchly Park, the man who broke the Nazi Enigma code. He has also been described as the father of the modern computer, dreaming of a machine that could think adn inaugurating a scientific revolution that we are deep in the midst of today. His work entailed too a challenge to the science of ourselves, exploring the limits between the human and technological.

Turing and the Universal Machine : The Making of the Modern Computer

Turing and the Universal Machine : The Making of the Modern Computer,Jon Agar,Totem Books,1840462507,1912-1954,Electronic digital computers,General,History,Science,Science/Mathematics,Turing, Alan Mathison,

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