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

by Jon Agar
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Synopsis

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.

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Book Details

Published
May 8, 2001
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Pages
106
Format
Textbook
ISBN
9781840462500

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