Alan Turing: His Work and ImpactEdited by - S. Cooper - J. van
Leeuwen, Department of Computer Science, University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands "The fact remains that everyone who taps at a
keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is
working on an incarnation of a Turing machine." - Time This new
and exciting book, scheduled to publish for the 2012 centenary
of Alan Turings birth in London, includes a large number of the
most significant contributions from the 4-volume set of the
Collected Works of A. M. Turing. These contributions, together
with a wide spectrum of accompanying commentaries from current
world-leading experts in many different fields and backgrounds,
provide insight on the significance and contemporary impact of
A.M. Turings work. Offering a more modern perspective than
anything currently available, this unique work gives wide
coverage of the many ways in which Turings scientific endeavours
have impacted current research and understanding of the world.
It provides a great s