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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... Scientific Mission in Washington , and had been the first scientific adviser to the British Army . The Mathematics Division , however , was new . Indeed , it was a computational equivalent of the planned welfare state , the product of a ...
... Scientific Mission in Washington , and had been the first scientific adviser to the British Army . The Mathematics Division , however , was new . Indeed , it was a computational equivalent of the planned welfare state , the product of a ...
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... Scientific Workers , was at the vanguard of this movement . In 1947 he wrote an introduction to the ASW book Science and the Nation , which promised such modern wonders as ' the scientific organisation of bureaucracy ' . Yet the ...
... Scientific Workers , was at the vanguard of this movement . In 1947 he wrote an introduction to the ASW book Science and the Nation , which promised such modern wonders as ' the scientific organisation of bureaucracy ' . Yet the ...
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... scientific or otherwise , to control the behaviour of the whole population . There was an air of fantasy , ritual display , clashing of symbols , about the whipped - up ' moral crisis ' of 1953-4 . Instead the 1950s saw British ...
... scientific or otherwise , to control the behaviour of the whole population . There was an air of fantasy , ritual display , clashing of symbols , about the whipped - up ' moral crisis ' of 1953-4 . Instead the 1950s saw British ...
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