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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Alan Turing: an Introductory Biography | 3 | |
| Alan's Apple: Hacking the Turing Test | 9 | |
| What Would Alan Turing Have Done After 1954? | 43 | |
| From Turing to the Information Society | 59 | |
| The Mechanization of Mathematics | 77 | |
| Hypercomputational Models | 135 | |
| Turing's Ideas and Models of Computation | 159 | |
| The Myth of Hypercomputation | 195 | |
| Quantum Computers: the Church-Turing Hypothesis Versus the Turing Principle | 213 | |
| Implementation of a Self-replicating Universal Turing Machine | 241 | |
| Cognitive Science and the Turing Machine: an Ecological Perspective | 271 | |
| Can Machines Think? | 295 | |
| The Computer, Artificial Intelligence, and the Turing Test | 317 | |
| A Note on Enjoying Strawberries with Cream, Making Mistakes, and Other Idiotic Features | 353 | |
| Robots and Rule-Following | 359 | |
| The Law of Accelerating Returns | 381 | |
| The Polish Brains Behind the Breaking of the Enigma Code Before and During the Second World War | 419 | |
| Alan Turing at Bletchley Park in World War II | 441 | |
| Alan M. Turing's Contributions to Co-operation Between the UK and the US | 463 | |
| Watching the Daisies Grow: Turing and Fibonacci Phyllotaxis | 477 | |
| Turing's Connectionism | 499 | |
| List of Contributors | 531 | |
| Index | 535 |
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Eric Campbell
reviewed Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker on July 31, 2014
Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker
Hao Wang visited with Godel [how does one insert umlauts?] extensively towards the end of Godel's life and collected his impressions in this book, which he wasn't able to bring to full completion before his own death. The result is a strange work in progress: Wang clearly admired Godel and wanted to share his vision of platonic essences and Leibnizian monads, but Godel was a strange dude, and Wang never quite found the way to fit the puzzle together, or even present the puzzle in a fully intentional way. The book circles around familiar themes, offers occasional sketches of this and that in Godel's biography, and a bit of Wang's own life, and expresses Wang's own heartfelt desire to see things systematically. But this all is accidental, I think, and not exactly the book Wang set out to write. It is fascinating in its own way, but also incomplete (hah!) and puzzling.
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