Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
The Essential Turing de B. Jack. Copeland

The Essential Turing

Editat de B. Jack. Copeland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 sep 2004

Considerăm că The Essential Turing reprezintă resursa fundamentală pentru înțelegerea arhitecturii gândirii moderne, plecând de la exercițiile de logică matematică și problemele de calculabilitate care au definit secolul XX. Volumul nu este doar o colecție de eseuri, ci un instrument de lucru care pune la dispoziția cititorului rapoartele tehnice originale ale lui Alan Turing, inclusiv specificațiile pentru Automatic Computing Engine (ACE). Aceste documente practice demonstrează cum conceptele abstracte de „oracol” sau „mașină neorganizată” au fost transpuse în primele modele de computere digitale cu program stocat.

Ceea ce distinge această ediție îngrijită de B. Jack Copeland este efortul de contextualizare. Fiecare text primar este precedat de o introducere care explică miza filozofică și tehnică, facilitând navigarea prin demonstrațiile matematice complexe. Cartea extinde cadrul propus de Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker cu date noi extrase direct din manuscrisele și rapoartele de la Bletchley Park, oferind o perspectivă tehnică mai profundă asupra modului în care au fost descifrate codurile Enigma și Fish.

Structura volumului reflectă evoluția lui Turing de la King's College la Manchester University, acoperind domenii diverse precum știința cognitivă și biologia matematică. Numeroasele diagrame și ilustrații incluse sunt esențiale pentru vizualizarea proceselor de recursivitate și a structurilor logice propuse de autor. Recomandăm acest volum ca pe o punte necesară între istoria științei și fundamentele actuale ale inteligenței artificiale, oferind o rigoare pe care biografiile narative nu o pot atinge singure.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 22866 lei

Preț vechi: 30085 lei
-24%

Puncte Express: 343

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 18-24 iunie

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198250807
ISBN-10: 0198250800
Pagini: 624
Ilustrații: numerous line drawings and halftones
Dimensiuni: 166 x 242 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această antologie oricărui student sau profesionist din domeniul informaticii și filozofiei care dorește să studieze sursa originală a conceptelor de AI și calculabilitate. Cititorul câștigă acces direct la mintea lui Turing, beneficiind în același timp de ghidajul unuia dintre cei mai mari experți în domeniu, Jack Copeland. Este o investiție în înțelegerea fundamentelor tehnologiei pe care o folosim zilnic.

Descriere

Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and WWII codebreaker, is one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad, non-specialist readership. They make fascinating reading both in their own right and for their historic significance: contemporary computational theory, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life all spring from this ground-breaking work, which is also rich in philosophical and logical insight. An introduction by leading Turing expert Jack Copeland provides the background and guides the reader through the selection. About Alan TuringAlan Turing FRS OBE, (1912-1954) studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of King's in March 1935, at the age of only 22. In the same year he invented the abstract computing machines - now known simply as Turing machines - on which all subsequent stored-program digital computers are modelled. During 1936-1938 Turing continued his studies, now at Princeton University. He completed a PhD in mathematical logic, analysing the notion of 'intuition' in mathematics and introducing the idea of oracular computation, now fundamental in mathematical recursion theory. An 'oracle' is an abstract device able to solve mathematical problems too difficult for the universal Turing machine.In the summer of 1938 Turing returned to his Fellowship at King's. When WWII started in 1939 he joined the wartime headquarters of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Building on earlier work by Polish cryptanalysts, Turing contributed crucially to the design of electro-mechanical machines ('bombes') used to decipher Enigma, the code by means of which the German armed forces sought to protect their radio communications. Turing's work on the version of Enigma used by the German navy was vital to the battle for supremacy in the North Atlantic. He also contributed to the attack on the cyphers known as 'Fish'. Based on binary teleprinter code, Fish was used during the latter part of the war in preference to morse-based Enigma for the encryption of high-level signals, for example messages from Hitler and other members of the German High Command. It is estimated that the work of GC&CS shortened the war in Europe by at least two years. Turing received the Order of the British Empire for the part he played.In 1945, the war over, Turing was recruited to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London, his brief to design and develop an electronic computer - a concrete form of the universal Turing machine. Turing's report setting out his design for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was the first relatively complete specification of an electronic stored-program general-purpose digital computer. Delays beyond Turing's control resulted in NPL's losing the race to build the world's first working electronic stored-program digital computer - an honour that went to the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University, in June 1948. Discouraged by the delays at NPL, Turing took up the Deputy Directorship of the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory in that year. Turing was a founding father of modern cognitive science and a leading early exponent of the hypothesis that the human brain is in large part a digital computing machine, theorising that the cortex at birth is an 'unorganised machine' which through 'training' becomes organised 'into a universal machine or something like it'. He also pioneered Artificial Intelligence.Turing spent the rest of his short career at Manchester University, being appointed to a specially created Readership in the Theory of Computing in May 1953. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in March 1951 (a high honour).

Recenzii

The editor not only presents the Turing seminal papers and ingenious contributions to fields he was far ahead his time, he also gives easy access for non-specialists by his comprehensive introductions and comments.