Books like The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold

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

Alan Turing, cryptographer at Bletchley Park and pioneer of modern computing, dreamed of a machine that could think, shaping the world of computer science and exploring the boundaries between human and technology.

Complexity theory is a central field of the theoretical foundations of computer science. It is concerned with the general study of the intrinsic complexity of computational tasks; that is, it addresses the question of what can be achieved within limited time (and/or with other limited natural computational resources). This book offers a conceptual perspective on complexity theory. It is intended to serve as an introduction for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, either as a textbook or for self-study. The book will also be useful to experts, since it provides expositions of the various sub-areas of complexity theory such as hardness amplification, pseudorandomness and probabilistic proof systems. In each case, the author starts by posing the intuitive questions that are addressed by the sub-area and then discusses the choices made in the actual formulation of these questions, the approaches that lead to the answers, and the ideas that are embedded in these answers.

Hector Levesque explores how AI can illuminate the mind by focusing on commonsense intelligence and proposing the Winograd Schema Test as a true measure of real artificial intelligence.

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biography of Alan Turing written by his nephew, Dermot Turing, drawing on newly released National Archives documents, unpublished photographs, and fresh insights into Turing’s life as mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer.

"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.

Brilliant mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing’s life and ideas—from breaking Germany’s Enigma codes to founding theoretical computer science—are explored in this concise biography.