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A madman dreams of Turing machines / by Levin, Janna.;
Subjects: Fiction.; Gödel, Kurt; Turing, Alan, 1912-1954; Logicians; Mathematicians; Genius; Philosophy;
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Turing's cathedral [sound recording] / by Dyson, George,1953-; Morey, Arthur.nrt;
Read by Arthur Morey.Presents the history of the invention of computers, describing the collaboration of John von Neumann and his colleagues as they worked together to create the first computer, an event which led to the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the digital age.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954.; Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957.; Computable functions.; Computers; Random access memory.; Turing machines.;
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Turing's cathedral : the origins of the digital universe / by Dyson, George,1953-,author.(CARDINAL)135228;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-377) and index.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Principal characters -- 1953 -- Olden Farm -- Veblen's circle -- Neumann János -- MANIAC -- Fuld 2019 -- 6J6 -- V-40 -- Cyclogenesis -- Monte Carlo -- Ulam's demons -- Barricelli's universe -- Turing's cathedral -- Engineer's dreams -- Theory of self-reproducing automata -- Mach 9 -- The tale of the big computer -- The thirty-ninth step -- Key to archival sources -- Notes -- Index"In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. In the 1940s and '50s, a small group of men and women - led by John von Neumann - gathered in Princeton, New Jersey, to begin building one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing's vision of a Universal Machine. The codes unleashed within the embryonic, 5-kilobyte universe - less memory than is allocated to displaying a single icon on a computer screen today - broke the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things, and our universe would never be the same. Turing's Cathedral is the story of how the most constructive and most destructive of twentieth-century inventions - the digital computer and the hydrogen bomb - emerged at the same time." -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957.; Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.; Computers; Turing machines.; Computable functions.; Random access memory.;
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Alan Turing / by Corrigan, Jim.(CARDINAL)671475;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110) and index.Early discoveries -- Universal Turing machine -- Unraveling the enigma -- Beyond Bletchley Park -- Building a brain -- Mathematical biology -- Poison apple -- Alan Turing's legacy.British mathematician Turing contributed much to what we now call artificial intelligence and computer science. He worked during World War II as a code breaker and used his skills to solve complex German codesAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.; Mathematicians;
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The logician and the engineer : how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age / by Nahin, Paul J.(CARDINAL)765163;
Includes bibliographical references and index.George Boole and Claude Shannon : two mini-biographies -- Boolean algebra -- Logical switching circuits -- Boole, Shannon, and probability -- Some combinatorial design logic examples -- Sequential-state digital circuits -- Turing machines -- Beyond Boole and Shannon.
Subjects: Biographies.; Boole, George, 1815-1864.; Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001.; Logicians; Electrical engineers; Computer logic.; Logic circuits.;
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A brief history of artificial intelligence : what it is, where we are, and where we are going / by Wooldridge, Michael J.,1966-author.(CARDINAL)388191;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Turing's electronic brains -- The golden age -- Knowledge is power -- Robots and rationality -- Deep breakthroughs -- AI today -- How we imagine things might go wrong -- Conscious machines?"From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial Intelligence The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and sentient; machines capable of the kind of intelligent autonomous action that currently only people are capable of. As an AI researcher with 25 years of experience, professor Mike Wooldridge has learned to be obsessively cautious about such claims, while still promoting an intense optimism about the future of the field. There have been genuine scientific breakthroughs that have made AI systems possible in the past decade that the founders of the field would have hailed as miraculous. Driverless cars and automated translation tools are just two examples of AI technologies that have become a practical, everyday reality in the past few years, and which will have a huge impact on our world. While the dream of conscious machines remains, Professor Wooldridge believes, a distant prospect, the floodgates for AI have opened. Wooldridge's A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence is an exciting romp through the history of this groundbreaking field--a one-stop-shop for AI's past, present, and world-changing future."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Artificial intelligence;
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Alan Turing : the enigma / by Hodges, Andrew,author.(CARDINAL)733494;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Explores the life of the mathematician, reveals the character of the man behind such concepts as the universal machine and the scientific understanding of the mind, and discusses his pioneering role in electronic computer design.
Subjects: Biographies.; Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.; Mathematicians;
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Turing : pioneer of the information age / by Copeland, B. Jack,1950-(CARDINAL)674901;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-288) and index.Click, tap, or touch to open -- The universal Turing machine -- America, mathematics, Hitler -- Di-di-di-dah-- enigma calling -- Turing's U-boat battle -- 1942 : back to America + Hitler's new code -- Colossus, Delilah, victory -- ACE, a month's work in a minute -- Manchester's 'Electronic Brain' -- The imitation game : artificial intelligence, artificial life -- Cold porridge -- /END//// -- Appendix. A simple Turing machine.Turing can be regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the war of 1939-45, Turing was also the father of the modern computer. Today, all who 'click-to-open' are familiar with the impact of Turing's ideas. 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.
Subjects: Biographies.; Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.; Mathematicians;
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Geniuses at war : Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the dawn of the digital age / by Price, David A.(David Andrew),1961-author.(CARDINAL)725784;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-231) and index.The right type of recruit -- The palace coup -- Breaking Tunny -- The soul of a new machine -- Decrypting for D-Day -- After the war -- Epilogue: Turing's child machine, 1968."Geniuses at War is the dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical time in World War II. Decoding the communication of the Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were encrypted by the "Tunny" cipher, a code that was orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma code. But Tommy Flowers, a maverick English working-class engineer, devised the ingenious, daring, and controversial plan to build a machine that could think at breathtaking speed and break the code in nearly real time. Together with the pioneering mathematician Max Newman and Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing, Flowers and his team produced--against the odds, the clock, and a resistant leadership--Colossus, the world's first digital electronic computer, the machine that would help bring the war to an end. With fascinating detail and illuminating insight, David A. Price's Geniuses at War tells, for the first time, the mesmerizing story of the great minds behind Colossus, and chronicles their remarkable feats of engineering genius which ushered in the dawn of the digital age"--
Subjects: Cryptography; Lorenz cipher system.; World War, 1939-1945;
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Digitized : the science of computers and how it shapes our world / by Bentley, P. J.(CARDINAL)506006;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.000: Introduction ; Computers uncovered ; The science of computers -- 001: Can you compute? ; Understanding the impossible ; Turing's unstoppable machines ; Turing's legacy ; Complexity is simple ; Does P = NP? ; Oracles and other complexities ; Theoretical futures -- 010: Disposbale computing ; Thinking logically ; Building brains ; Anatomy of a digital brain ; The end of the beginning ; The law of Moore ; The future is many ; Beyond von Neumann -- 011: Your life in binary digits ; Learning to program computers ; Climbing higher ; Bases for data ; Software crisis ; Virtual futures -- 100: Monkeys with world-spanning voices ; Diverse connections ; Inter-networking ; Addressing for success ; Spinning webs over networks ; Weaving tangled webs ; Webs of deceit ; Digital lives -- 101: My computer made me cry ; The birth of friendly computing ; Seeing with new eyes ; Photos and chicken wire ; Waking dreams ; It's not what you do but the way that you do it ; My pet computer ; Human computer integration -- 110: Building bionic brains ; Teaching computers how to play ; The birth of intelligence ; The seasons of AI ; Intelligence from feet to head ; Adaptation by natural selection ; Learning to learn, predicting the predictors ; Complex futures -- 111: A computer changed my life ; Computer creativity ; Computational biology ; Computer medicine ; Computer detectives.Peter J. Bentley tells the story of computer science, explaining how and why computers were invented, how they work, looking at real-world examples of computers in use, and considering what will happen in the future--
Subjects: Computer science.; Computer science;
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