Alan Turing: The EnigmaA gripping story of mathematics, science, computing, war history, cryptography, and homosexual persecution and liberation. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. This work was directly related to Turing's leading role in breaking the German Enigma ciphers during World War II, a scientific triumph that was critical to Allied victory in the Atlantic. Despite his wartime service, Turing was eventually arrested, stripped of his security clearance, and forced to undergo a humiliating treatment program-- all for trying to live honestly in a society that defined homosexuality as a crime. This New York Times bestselling biography of the founder of computer science and artificial intelligence is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life. --Excerpted from 2014 version, published by Princeton University Press. |
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... experience , had taught him about all the radio and radar equipment used by the British forces . The second was yet another Donald . This was Donald Bayley , who came from a quite different background , that of Walsall Grammar School ...
... experience , had taught him about all the radio and radar equipment used by the British forces . The second was yet another Donald . This was Donald Bayley , who came from a quite different background , that of Walsall Grammar School ...
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... experience of making up [ delay ] lines and would exchange information with Dr Turing . ' Next day Wilkes wrote28 to Womersley : I believe Professor Hartree has told you that I am beginning to do a little work on electronic calculating ...
... experience of making up [ delay ] lines and would exchange information with Dr Turing . ' Next day Wilkes wrote28 to Womersley : I believe Professor Hartree has told you that I am beginning to do a little work on electronic calculating ...
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... experience in an Austrian elementary school , where he had explicitly tried to get away from the repressive rote - learning that Alan had endured . By this time Alan had compared his school experience with Robin , who had had a much ...
... experience in an Austrian elementary school , where he had explicitly tried to get away from the repressive rote - learning that Alan had endured . By this time Alan had compared his school experience with Robin , who had had a much ...
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