John Turing: 2 books

'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised until his contribution to the breaking of the German...

'I do not see why it [the machine] should not enter any one of the fields normally covered by the human intellect, and eventually compete on equal terms.' Alan Turing, 1949 Today computers shape every aspect of our lives. In our pockets, we carry mobile phones with computing power that was...