Books like Turing by B. Jack Copeland

An exploration of the parallels between computer systems and the nervous system, focusing on cybernetic principles and neural networks.

A graphic biography of Alan Turing, the pioneering mathematician and gay father of modern computing, exploring his breakthroughs, battle with legal persecution, and lasting impact on artificial intelligence and telecommunications.

Ada Lovelace’s life and legacy are examined as a window on the social and scientific shifts of early nineteenth‑century Britain.

A first‑hand biography of Alan Turing written by his nephew, Dermot Turing, drawing on newly released National Archives documents, unpublished photographs, and fresh insights into Turing’s life as mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer.

A history of artificial intelligence that has remained in print for nearly two decades and is now back with an updated Afterword.

Alan M. Turing, a towering figure in 20th‑century mathematics and computing, whose pioneering work on Enigma and contributions to logic, artificial intelligence and computational biology reshaped modern science.

"Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of his tragically short life included the universal Turing Machine (the theoretical foundation of all modern computing), the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design for an electronic stored-programme computer, and work on artificial intelligence and artificial life so revolutionary that he can claim to be the founding father of these disciplines. In this book, Turing's key writings in all these subjects are made easily accessible for the first time. Lectures, scientific papers, top secret wartime material, correspondence, and broadcasts are introduced and set in context by Jack Copeland, Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing."--Jacket.

Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, and mathematician Ada Lovelace, whose contributions, according to Essinger, proved indispensable to Babbage's invention. The Analytical Engine was a series of cogwheels, gear-shafts, camshafts, and power transmission rods controlled by a punch-card system based on the Jacquard loom. Lovelace, the only legitimate child of English poet Lord Byron, wrote extensive notes about the machine, including an algorithm to compute a long sequence of Bernoulli numbers, which some observers now consider to be the world's first computer program.