Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer - Couverture souple

Agar, Jon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178578238X ISBN 13 : 9781785782381

Editeur : Icon Books, 2017

Synopsis

The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant but troubled Alan Turing.

How did the computer come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? In Jon Agar s enlightening story of the universal machine , we discover how Turing s groundbreaking work not only helped break German codes during the Second World War but also founded the beginnings of the modern computer.

Persecuted by the authorities for his homosexuality, and ultimately hounded to suicide, Turing s personal tribulations are as relevant to the modern world as his work on computing, as indicated by his posthumous royal pardon of 2013 and the recent film The Imitation Game, which focuses on Turing s turbulent life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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 of Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (Polity, 2012) and Constant Touch: a Global History of the Mobile Phone (Icon, second edition 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Icon Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 178578238X
• ISBN 13: 9781785782381
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible