The Reviews department features book reviews of A.M. Turing's The Essential Turing (edited by B. Jack Copeland) and Steven T. Usdin's Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley.
[1] 81 A.M. Turing, Collected Works of A.M. Turing, J.L. Britton et al., eds., North-Holland, 1992–2001.
[2] A. M. Turing Proposed electronic calculator, National Physical Laboratory report, 1946, reprinted in the Collected Works of A.M. Turing.
[3] M. Davis, The Universal Computer, Norton, 2000.
[4] C. Teuscher, Turing's Connectionism: An Investigation of Neural Network Architectures, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
[5] A. Church, Review of Turing (1936), J. Symbolic Logic, 2, pp. 42–43 (1937)
[6] A.M. Turing, "Systems of Logic Defined by Ordinals," Proc. London Math. Soc., ser. 2,45, 161–228 (1939); The Essential Turing, 2004, pp. 146–204.
[7] B.J. Copeland, "The Church-Turing Thesis," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2002; http:/plato.stanford.edu.
[8] B.J. Copeland and D. Proudfoot, "Alan Turing's Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science," Scientific American, vol. 280, no. 4, 1999, pp. 76–81.
[9] A.M. Turing, "Can Digital Computers Think?" BBC radio talk, 15 May 1951; The Essential Turing, 2004, pp. 482–486.
Index Terms:
Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, learning machines, spies, Soviet computing
Citation:
Andrew Hodges, James W. Cortada, "Reviews," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 81-83, July-Sept. 2006, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2006.55