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_aPapadimitriou, Christos H., _eauthor. _922095 |
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_aTuring : _ba novel about computation / _cby Christos H. Papadimitriou. |
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_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _cc2003. |
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_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2005] |
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_a1 PDF (284 pages) : _billustrations. |
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| 506 | 1 | _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. | |
| 520 | _aOur 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. | ||
| 530 | _aAlso available in print. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web | ||
| 588 | _aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/28/2015. | ||
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_aTuring, Alan Mathison, _d1912-1954 _vFiction. _922096 |
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_aComputer simulation _vFiction. _922097 |
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_aComputer scientists _vFiction. _922098 |
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_aMathematicians _vFiction. _922099 |
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_aDidactic fiction. _2gsafd _922100 |
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_aLove stories. _2gsafd _922101 |
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_aElectronic books. _93294 |
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_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _922102 |
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_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _922103 |
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_iPrint version _z9780262162180 |
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_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267316 |
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