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The Annotated Turing：A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

  • 作者 Charles Petzold著
  • 出版社 Wiley
  • 出版时间 2008年5月 第1版
  • ISBN 9780470229057
  • 定价 297.70

内容简介

ProgrammingLegendCharlesPetzoldunlocksthesecretsoftheextraordinaryandprescient1936paperbyAlanM.TuringMathematicianAlanTuringinventedanimaginarycomputerknownastheTuringMachine;inanagebeforecomputers,heexploredtheconceptofwhatitmeanttobecomputable,creatingthefieldofcomputabilitytheoryintheprocess,afoundationofpresent-daycomputerprogramming.ThebookexpandsTuring’soriginal36-pagepaperwithadditionalbackgroundchaptersandextensiveannotations;theauthorelaboratesonandclarifiesmanyofTuring’sstatements,makingtheoriginaldifficult-to-readdocumentaccessibletopresentdayprogrammers,computersciencemajors,mathgeeks,andothers.InterwovenintothenarrativearethehighlightsofTuring’sownlife:hisyearsatCambridgeandPrinceton,hissecretworkincryptanalysisduringWorldWarII,hisinvolvementinseminalcomputerprojects,hisspeculationsaboutartificialintelligence,hisarrestandprosecutionforthecrimeof"grossindecency,"andhisearlydeathbyapparentsuicideattheageof41.

作者简介

EnglishmathematicianAlanTuring(1912–1954)istheauthorofthe1936paper"OnComputableNumbers,withanApplicationtotheEntscheidungsproblem"thatintroducedtheimaginarycomputercalledtheTuringMachineforunderstandingthenatureandlimitationsofcomputing.Hisfamous1950article"ComputingMachineryandIntelligence"introducedtheTuringTestforgaugingartificialintelligence.AmericanwriterCharlesPetzold(1953–)istheauthoroftheacclaimed1999bookCode:TheHiddenLanguageofComputerHardwareandSoftware,auniqueexplorationintothedigitaltechnologiesofcomputers.Heisalsotheauthorofhundredsofarticlesaboutcomputerprogramming,aswellasseveralbooksonwritingprogramsthatrununderMicrosoftWindows.HisWebsiteiswww.charlespetzold.com.

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