LEADER 04074nam 2200613 450 001 9910260633503321 005 20231110230144.0 010 $a0-262-25078-0 010 $a1-282-09666-4 010 $a0-262-25676-2 010 $a1-4237-2526-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000012598 035 $a(MH)009232007-4 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000262909 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195207 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000262909 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10273998 035 $a(PQKB)10560934 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat06267316 035 $a(IDAMS)0b000064818b42da 035 $a(IEEE)6267316 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6243336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6246635 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6243336 035 $a(OCoLC)860612818 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000012598 100 $a20210920d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTuring $e(a novel about computation) /$fChristos H. Papadimitriou 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cMIT Press,$d[2005] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (284 p. ) 225 1 $aThe MIT Press 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-16218-0 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Alexandros -- Morcom -- Trapped -- Alexandros -- The Truth -- Hubris -- Tits -- Mom -- Rusty and Sola -- Voces -- Ex Machinae -- F2F -- Layers -- Simulants -- The Don -- Runner -- The Daemon -- The Womb -- Free Market -- I love you -- Complexity -- Kythera -- Little Things -- Hide-and-Seek -- AI -- Turing's Test -- They'll kill me -- Ian and Turing -- Turing -- Afterword: From the Newsgroup -- Acknowledgments. 330 $aOur hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point of view unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair involving Ethel, a successful computer executive, Alexandros, a melancholy archaeologist, and Ian, a charismatic hacker. After Ethel (who shares her first name with Alan Turing's mother) abandons Alexandros following a sundrenched idyll on Corfu, Turing appears on Alexandros's computer screen to unfurl a tutorial on the history of ideas. He begins with the philosopher-mathematicians of ancient Greece -- "discourse, dialogue, argument, proof... can only thrive in an egalitarian society" -- and the Arab scholar in ninth-century Baghdad who invented algorithms; he moves on to many other topics, including cryptography and artificial intelligence, even economics and developmental biology. (These lessons are later critiqued amusingly and developed further in postings by a fictional newsgroup in the book's afterword.) As Turing's lectures progress, the lives of Alexandros, Ethel, and Ian converge in dramatic fashion, and the story takes us from Corfu to Hong Kong, from Athens to San Francisco -- and of course to the Internet, the disruptive technological and social force that emerges as the main locale and protagonist of the novel.Alternately pedagogical and romantic, Turing (A Novel about Computation) should appeal both to students and professionals who want a clear and entertaining account of the development of computation and to the general reader who enjoys novels of ideas. 410 4$aThe MIT Press 608 $aDidactic fiction.$2gsafd 608 $aLove stories.$2gsafd 676 $a510.92 700 $aPapadimitriou$b Christos H.$0291381 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910260633503321 996 $aTuring$91899638 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress