The Annotated Turing - by Charles Petzold (Paperback)

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About the Book Petzold elaborates on Alan Turing's historic paper on computability and the Turing Machine. Interwoven into the narrative are the highlights of Turing's secret work in cryptanalysis during World War II, his involvement in seminal computer projects, and his speculations about artificial intelligence. Book Synopsis Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. Turing Mathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable , creating the field of computability theory in the process, a foundation of p…