在数字计算机出现之前，艾伦·图灵设想了它们的能力和多功能性……但也证明了计算机永远做不到的事情。
图灵的一生非同寻常，最终悲剧性极强，就像小说一样展开。图灵帮助打破了德国的谜码，扭转了第二次世界大战的潮流。后来，图灵利用人工智能进行了推测，成为20世纪50年代初恐同巫术的牺牲品，并在41岁时自杀。然而，图灵最著名的是他在1936年发表的一篇有着惊人先见之明的论文。在这篇论文中，他发明了一台想象中的计算机，探索了它的能力和内在局限性，并为现代编程和可计算性奠定了基础。
这本引人入胜的书扩展了图灵现在传奇般的36页的论文，有广泛的注释，引人入胜的历史背景，以及翻页的私人生活。从他对二进制数的使用，到他对当今程序员将认识到的RISC处理、子程序、算法等概念的探索，图灵预见了未来，并帮助塑造了未来。在我们的后图灵世界中，一切都是一台图灵机器，从我们能建造的最复杂的计算机，到人类思维中难以计算的算法过程，再到我们生活的充满信息的宇宙。
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (AZW3)
Before digital computers ever existed, Alan Turing envisioned their power and versatility…but also proved what computers could never do.
In an extraordinary and ultimately tragic life that unfolded like a novel, Turing helped break the German Enigma code to turn the tide of World War II, later speculated on artificial intelligence, fell victim to the homophobic witchhunts of the early 1950s, and committed suicide at the age of 41. Yet Turing is most famous for an eerily prescient 1936 paper in which he invented an imaginary computing machine, explored its capabilities and intrinsic limitations, and established the foundations of modern-day programming and computability.
This absorbing book expands Turings now legendary 36-page paper with extensive annotations, fascinating historical context, and page-turning glimpses into his private life. From his use of binary numbers to his exploration of concepts that todays programmers will recognize as RISC processing, subroutines, algorithms, and others, Turing foresaw the future and helped to mold it. In our post-Turing world, everything is a Turing Machine from the most sophisticated computers we can build, to the hardly algorithmic processes of the human mind, to the information-laden universe in which we live.
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