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The Turing Guide is divided into eight main parts, covering various aspects of Alan Turing's life and work: [3]. Biography: Biographical aspects of Alan Turing.; The Universal Machine and Beyond: Turing's universal machine (now known as a Turing machine), developed while at King's College, Cambridge, which provides a theoretical framework for reasoning about computation, a starting point for ...
The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-825080-0. Turing, Sarah (1959). Alan M. Turing. Heffer. Yates, David M. (1997). Turing's Legacy: A History of Computing at the National Physical Laboratory, 1945–1995.
The book was written by Anthony Hyman (1928–2011), a British historian of computing. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1982 (hardcover) and Princeton University Press in 1982 and 1985 (hardcover and paperback). The book is available online from Archive.org. [1]
The OTA was founded by Lou Burnard and Susan Hockey of Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) in 1976, initially as the Oxford Archive of Electronic Literature. It is thought to be one of the first archives of digital academic textual resources to collect and distribute materials from other research centres. [ 1 ]
In the same year he left Liverpool to become professor of computer science at the University of Oxford, and served as head of the Department of Computer Science from 2014 - 2018. In Oxford he is a senior research fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. Michael Wooldridge is author of more than 300 academic publications. [4] [13] [14]
J.-R. Abrial is the father of the Z notation (typically used for formal specification of software), during his time at the Programming Research Group under Prof. Tony Hoare within the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now Oxford University Department of Computer Science), arriving in 1979 and sharing an office and collaborating with Cliff ...
James Essinger (born 5 September 1957) is a freelance writer and British author of numerous financial and business management books, but he is better known for his non-fiction books. These include Spellbound: The Improbable Story of English Spelling [ 1 ] and his popular science book on the history of computing, Jacquard's Web . [ 2 ]
In 1956 the University Grants Committee decided to fund the purchase of a Ferranti Mercury and the Oxford University Computing Laboratory was born [4] (shortened as OUCL or Comlab). As well as facilitating research elsewhere in the university, the new department had its own academic function, performing research in numerical analysis, and ...