TURING: PIONEER OF THE INFORMATION AGE

摘要

There can't be a single reader of E&T who hasn't heard of Alan Turing. But just in case, I'm going to start with what he must have known would be the first line of his obituary, by saying that Turing was the father of modern computing. But there was so much more to this inspirational genius that it takes real insight for any biographer not to get bogged down in rerunning the established narratives of Bletchley Park or artificial intelligence.