Cooper, SB (2016) Turing, Alan M. In: Jensen, KB and Craig, RT, (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, IV . John Wiley & Sons , Chichester, UK , pp. 2088-2095. ISBN 9781118766804
Abstract
What is known today as the Turing machine model captures the character of everyday computation. On the one hand, Alan Turing's design for a universal machine adumbrated the stored-program computer—the “wheel” of the impending computer revolution and of the new information age. On the other hand, he described the unsolvable “halting problem” of this machine: there is an “incomputability,” observable by us, but not by the machine. Turing seems to have seen still a role for human intelligence, even in today's computationally and socially complex world. And he gave us the mathematics to put the failures of mathematics into context. As for the computers on our desks, Turing proclaimed throughout his later career the complementary roles of computing machine and human being.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mathematics (Leeds) > Pure Mathematics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2015 08:29 |
Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2017 16:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect242 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
Series Name: | The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect242 |
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