Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing

Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing

Author: Juliet Floyd

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 3319532804

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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.


Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker

Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker

Author: Christof Teuscher

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 3662056429

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Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker is the definitive collection of essays in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Alan Turing. This fascinating text covers the rich facets of his life, thoughts, and legacy, but also sheds some light on the future of computing science with a chapter contributed by visionary Ray Kurzweil, winner of the 1999 National Medal of Technology. Further, important contributions come from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Turing biographer Andrew Hodges, and from the distinguished logician Martin Davis, who provides a first critical essay on an emerging and controversial field termed "hypercomputation".


Machines and Thought

Machines and Thought

Author: Peter Millican

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1999-03-18

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780198238768

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This is the first of two volumes of essays on the intellectual legacy of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the three famous ideas associated with his name: the Turing test, the Turing machine, and the Church-Turing thesis. 'a fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in many fields' Choice


Machines and Thought

Machines and Thought

Author: P. J. R. Millican

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1996-11-28

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0198235933

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This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to be widely discussed today. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the three seminal ideas associated with his name: the Turing test, the Turing machine, and the Church-Turing thesis.


Turing

Turing

Author: B. Jack Copeland

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0198719183

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B. Jack Copeland celebrates the life and work of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. Best known for the role he played in cracking German secret code Enigma during World War Two, and the personal tragedy of his death aged only 41, this is an insight into to the man, his work, and his legacy.


Alan Turing's Manchester

Alan Turing's Manchester

Author: Jonathan Swinton

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2022-05-26

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1803990759

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Alan Turing is a patron saint of Manchester, remembered as the Mancunian who won the war, invented the computer, and was all but put to death for being gay. Each myth is related to a historical story. This is not a book about the first of those stories, of Turing at Bletchley Park. But it is about the second two, which each unfolded here in Manchester, of Turing's involvement in the world's first computer and of his refusal to be cowed about his sexuality. Manchester can be proud of Turing, but can we be proud of the city he encountered?


Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology

Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology

Author: Andy Clark

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1999-03-18

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780198238751

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This is the second of two volumes of essays on the ideas of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in artificial intelligence and computer science made him one of the seminal thinkers of the century. A distinguished international cast of contributors offer original investigations of key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science, celebrating Turing's intellectual legacy in these fields. 'fascinating . . .we can all learn by reading these essays because they encourage us to explore issues beyond our normal sphere of expertise' Choice


Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society

Rohit Parikh on Logic, Language and Society

Author: Can Başkent

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 3319478435

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This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh’s scholarly work. Highlighting the transition in Parikh’s interest from formal languages to natural languages, and how he approached Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, it traces the academic trajectory of a brilliant scholar whose work opened up various new avenues in research. This volume is part of Springer’s book series Outstanding Contributions to Logic, and honours Rohit Parikh and his works in many ways. Parikh is a leader in the realm of ideas, offering concepts and definitions that enrich the field and lead to new research directions. Parikh has contributed to a variety of areas in logic, computer science and game theory. In mathematical logic his contributions have been in recursive function theory, proof theory and non-standard analysis; in computer science, in the areas of modal, temporal and dynamic logics of programs and semantics of programs, as well as logics of knowledge; in artificial intelligence in the area of belief revision; and in game theory in the formal analysis of social procedures, with a strong undercurrent of philosophy running through all his work.This is not a collection of articles limited to one theme, or even directly connected to specific works by Parikh, but instead all papers are inspired and influenced by Parikh in some way, adding structures to and enriching “Parikh-land”. The book presents a brochure-like overview of Parikh-land before providing an “introductory video” on the sights and sounds that you experience when reading the book.


HAL's Legacy

HAL's Legacy

Author: David G. Stork

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780262692113

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How science fiction's most famous computer has influenced the research and design of intelligent machines.