Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work.This volume will bring together contributions from some of the leading experts on Alan Turing to create a comprehensive guide to Turing that will serve as a useful resource for researchers in the area as well as the increasingly interested general reader. The book will cover aspects of Turing's life and the wide range of his intellectual activities, including mathematics, code-breaking, computer science, logic, artificial intelligence and mathematical biology, as well as his subsequent influence.

Biography; 1 JACK COPELAND and JONATHAN BOWEN: Life and work; 2 SIR JOHN DERMOT TURING: The man with the terrible trousers; 3 PETER HILTON: Meeting a genius; 4 JACK COPELAND: Crime and punishment; THE UNIVERSAL MACHINE AND BEYOND; 5 STEPHEN WOLFRAM: A century of Turing; 6 JACK COPELAND: Turing's great invention: the universal computing machine; 7 JACK COPELAND: Hilbert and his famous problem; 8 BRIAN RANDELL: Turing and the origins of digital computers; CODEBREAKER; 9 JACK COPELAND: At Bletchley Park; 10 JOEL GREENBERG: The Enigma machine; 11 MAVIS BATEY: Breaking machines with a pencil; 12 JACK COPELAND, with JEAN VALENTINE and CATHERINE CAUGHEY: Bombes; 13 EDWARD SIMPSON: Introducing Banburismus; 14 JACK COPELAND: Tunny, Hitler's biggest fish; 15 ELEANOR IRELAND: We were the world's first computer operators; 16 JERRY ROBERTS: The Testery: breaking Hitler's most secret code; 17 BRIAN RANDELL: Ultra revelations; 18 JACK COPELAND: Delilah - encrypting speech; 19 SIMON GREENISH and JONATHAN BOWEN: Saving the Park; COMPUTERS AFTER THE WAR; 20 JACK COPELAND: The Manchester Baby; 21 MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY: ACE, London's first computer; 22 BRIAN E. CARPENTER and ROBERT W. DORAN: Turing's Zeitgeist; 23 JACK COPELAND and JASON LONG: Computer music; 24 DORON SWADE: Turing, Lovelace, and Babbage; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE MIND; 25 JACK COPELAND: Intelligent machinery; 26 MARK SPREVAK: Turing's model of the mind; 27 DIANE PROUDFOOT: The Turing test - from every angle; 28 DIANE PROUDFOOT: Turing's concept of intelligence; 29 JACK COPELAND and DIANE PROUDFOOT: Connectionism: computing with neurons; 30 DIANE PROUDFOOT: Child machines; 31 JACK COPELAND and DANI PRINZ: Computer chess - the first moments; 32 DAVID LEAVITT: Turing and the paranormal; BIOLOGICAL GROWTH; 33 MARGARET BODEN: Pioneer of artificial life; 34 THOMAS E. WOOLLEY, RUTH BAKER, and PHILIP MAINI: Turing's theory of morphogenesis; 35 BERNARD RICHARDS: Radiolaria: validating the Turing theory; Mathematics; 36 ROBIN WHITTY and ROBIN WILSON: Introducing Turing's mathematics; 37 ROBIN WHITTY: Decidability and the Entscheidungsproblem; 38 EDWARD SIMPSON: Banburismus revisited: depths and Bayes; 39 ROD DOWNEY: Turing and randomness; 40 IVOR GRATTAN-GUINNESS: Turing's mentor, Max Newman; Finale; 41 JACK COPELAND, ORON SHAGRIR, and MARK SPREVAK: Is the whole universe a computer?; 42 JONATHAN BOWEN: Turing's legacy