TY  - GEN
AU  - Copeland,B.Jack
TI  - Turing: pioneer of the information age 
SN  - 9780199639793 (hbk.)
AV  - QA 29 .T8 C78 2012
U1  - 510.92 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Turing, Alan Mathison,
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Here, B. Jack Copeland provides an account of Turing's life and work, exploring the key elements of his life-story in tandem with his leading ideas and contributions. The book highlights Turing's contributions to computing and to computer science, including Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life, and the emphasis throughout is on the relevance of his work to modern developments. The story of his contributions to codebreaking during the Second World War is set in the context of his thinking about machines, as is the account of his work in the foundations of mathematics. -- Publisher
ER  -