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Alan Mathison Turing
Frixione, Marcello; Numerico, Teresa
2013
Abstract
2012 saw the world-wide celebration of the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the British genius who radically affected the history of science and technology with his astounding results. His work was revolutionary in a wide range of fields, from mathematics to computability, from theoretical computer science to artificial intelligence, and from cryptanalysis to mathematical biology. His most remarkable results include the negative solution to the halting problem, the notion of a Universal Turing Machine, the decoding of the Enigma code during World War II, the design of one of the first electronic computers with a stored program called ACE, the first hypothesis for a strategy for artificial intelligence in Great Britain, the test for machine intelligence that bears his name, as well as important results in mathematical biology. This profile gives an overview of the most important results in Turing's research and places them in the cultural context in which they developed.
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Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Marcello Frixione e Teresa Numerico, "Alan Mathison Turing", in "APhEx 7", 2013, pp. 52
Languages
it
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