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Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer de Jon Agar

Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer: Icon Science

Autor Jon Agar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2017
The history of the computer is entwinedwith that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant buttroubled Alan Turing.
How did the computer come to structureand dominate our lives so totally? In Jon Agar’s enlightening story of the‘universal machine’, we discover how Turing’s groundbreaking work not onlyhelped break German codes during the Second World War but also founded the beginningsof the modern computer.
Persecuted by the authorities for hishomosexuality, and ultimately hounded to suicide, Turing’s personaltribulations are as relevant to the modern world as his work on computing, asindicated by his posthumous royal pardon of 2013 and the recent filmThe Imitation Game, which focuses onTuring’s turbulent life.
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ISBN-13: 9781785782381
ISBN-10: 178578238X
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Icon Books Ltd
Colecția Icon Books Ltd
Seria Icon Science

Locul publicării:Duxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Jon Agar is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at University College London, where he teaches history of science and technology. He is also the author ofScience in the Twentieth Century and Beyond(Polity, 2012) andConstant Touch: a Global History of the Mobile Phone(Icon, second edition 2012).

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The history of the computer is entwinedwith that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant buttroubled Alan Turing. How did the computer come to structureand dominate our lives so totally? In Jon Agar's enlightening story of the`universal machine', we discover how Turing's groundbreaking work not onlyhelped break German codes during the Second World War but also founded the beginningsof the modern computer. Persecuted by the authorities for hishomosexuality, and ultimately hounded to suicide, Turing's personaltribulations are as relevant to the modern world as his work on computing, asindicated by his posthumous royal pardon of 2013 and the recent film The Imitation Game, which focuses onTuring's turbulent life.