Turing and the computer

Name: Turing and the computer
ISBN: 9780099237822

by Paul Strathern

4/5

At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world.

Today, computers touch every aspect of our lives and dominate the world of technology.

They have revolutionised the modern age of communication and are arguably one of humankind's greatest achievements.

To imagine a 21st Century existence without a computer seems impossible.

Yet despite our utter reliance on computers, how much is really known about the way they work or their inventor, Alan Turing?Turing's work has lasting implications for our day-to-day lives as well as our first notions of artificial intelligence.

Both engaging and accessible, Turing and the Computer pays homage to the extraordinary life and work of an intense and emotional man who struggled with discrimination from his peers and family, helped break the Enigma codes to win World War II, and invented the world's first computer.

before being largely forgotten by the world.

The Big Idea series is a fascinating look at the greatest advances in our scientific history, and at the men and women who made these fundamental breakthroughs.

First published: 1999
Publishers: Anchor Books
Subjects: Computers·History·Turing machines

Written at the middle school level, this book didn't cut it for me. I was looking for more information than the very rudimentary story provided here.

About Paul Strathern

Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel A Season in Abyssinia won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972.Besides five novels, he has also written numerous books on science, philosophy, history, literature, medicine and economics....

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