Turing : (Record no. 72972)
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| control field | 6267316 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204627.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 151228s2005 maua ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262256766 |
| -- | electronic |
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| -- | hc. : alk. paper |
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| 082 00 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 813/.6 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Papadimitriou, Christos H., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Turing : |
| Sub Title | a novel about computation / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (284 pages) : |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point of view unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair involving Ethel, a successful computer executive, Alexandros, a melancholy archaeologist, and Ian, a charismatic hacker. After Ethel (who shares her first name with Alan Turing's mother) abandons Alexandros following a sundrenched idyll on Corfu, Turing appears on Alexandros's computer screen to unfurl a tutorial on the history of ideas. He begins with the philosopher-mathematicians of ancient Greece -- "discourse, dialogue, argument, proof... can only thrive in an egalitarian society" -- and the Arab scholar in ninth-century Baghdad who invented algorithms; he moves on to many other topics, including cryptography and artificial intelligence, even economics and developmental biology. (These lessons are later critiqued amusingly and developed further in postings by a fictional newsgroup in the book's afterword.) As Turing's lectures progress, the lives of Alexandros, Ethel, and Ian converge in dramatic fashion, and the story takes us from Corfu to Hong Kong, from Athens to San Francisco -- and of course to the Internet, the disruptive technological and social force that emerges as the main locale and protagonist of the novel.Alternately pedagogical and romantic, Turing (A Novel about Computation) should appeal both to students and professionals who want a clear and entertaining account of the development of computation and to the general reader who enjoys novels of ideas. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267316 |
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| Koha item type | eBooks |
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| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | c2003. |
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| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2005] |
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| -- | electronic |
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| -- | online resource |
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| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/28/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Computer simulation |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Computer scientists |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Mathematicians |
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