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Alan Turing

  1. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Janna Levin ““The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.””
Computing pioneer Alan Turing on love and loss:

    A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

    Janna Levin

    “The body provides something for the spirit to look after and use.”

    Computing pioneer Alan Turing on love and loss:

  2. The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt Lamothe The Most Generous Book in the World – a heartening illustrated homage to the wives, mothers, brothers,...

    The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History

    Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt Lamothe

    The Most Generous Book in the World – a heartening illustrated homage to the wives, mothers, brothers, benefactors, and other quiet champions behind some of history’s most celebrated creative geniuses: George Washington’s dentist, Alan Turing’s teenage crush, Emily Dickinson’s dog, Alfred Hitchcock’s wife, Roald Dahl’s mother, and more.

  3. Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age Jack Copeland “He might ask you … whether you think a computer could ever enjoy strawberries and cream or could make you fall in love with it.”
An uncommon portrait of Alan Turing, godfather of modern computing.

    Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age

    Jack Copeland

    “He might ask you … whether you think a computer could ever enjoy strawberries and cream or could make you fall in love with it.”

    An uncommon portrait of Alan Turing, godfather of modern computing.