CiteULike Search Register Log in
CiteULike is a free online bibliography manager. Register and you can start organising your references online.

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

by: Jon Agar
(01 June 2001)

X Abstract

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.

View the full article here:

Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, WorldCat (ISBN), Google Books, Amazon.com, LibraryThing

This article has been bookmarked once, on 2006-07-09.

2006-07-09 User BenWiedermann , 1 note

A good book for the layperson. Agar puts the development of the computer in a socio-historical context and writes well about the insights at the heart of computation. The book is not a biography of Turing.

2006-07-09 06:00:46
Privacy Statement | Terms & Conditions
CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. It helps undergraduates and postgraduates. People studying for PhDs or in postdoctoral (postdoc) positions. The service is similar in scope to EndNote or RefWorks or any other reference manager like BibTeX, but it is a social bookmarking service for scientists and humanities researchers.