Table of Contents

Biography
1: JACK COPELAND and JONATHAN BOWEN: Life and work
2: SIR JOHN DERMOT TURING: The man with the terrible trousers
3: PETER HILTON: Meeting a genius
4: JACK COPELAND: Crime and punishment
THE UNIVERSAL MACHINE AND BEYOND
5: STEPHEN WOLFRAM: A century of Turing
6: JACK COPELAND: Turing's great invention: the universal computing machine
7: JACK COPELAND: Hilbert and his famous problem
8: BRIAN RANDELL: Turing and the origins of digital computers
CODEBREAKER
9: JACK COPELAND: At Bletchley Park
10: JOEL GREENBERG: The Enigma machine
11: MAVIS BATEY: Breaking machines with a pencil
12: JACK COPELAND, with JEAN VALENTINE and CATHERINE CAUGHEY: Bombes
13: EDWARD SIMPSON: Introducing Banburismus
14: JACK COPELAND: Tunny, Hitler's biggest fish
15: ELEANOR IRELAND: We were the world's first computer operators
16: JERRY ROBERTS: The Testery: breaking Hitler's most secret code
17: BRIAN RANDELL: Ultra revelations
18: JACK COPELAND: Delilah - encrypting speech
19: SIMON GREENISH, JONATHAN BOWEN: Turing's Monument
COMPUTERS AFTER THE WAR
20: JACK COPELAND: Baby
21: MARTIN CAMPBELL-KELLY: ACE
22: BRIAN E. CARPENTER and ROBERT W. DORAN: Turing's Zeitgeist
23: JACK COPELAND and JASON LONG: Computer music
24: DORON SWADE: Turing, Lovelace, and Babbage
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE MIND
25: JACK COPELAND: Intelligent machinery
26: MARK SPREVAK: Turing's model of the mind
27: DIANE PROUDFOOT: The Turing test - from every angle
28: DIANE PROUDFOOT: Turing's concept of intelligence
29: JACK COPELAND and DIANE PROUDFOOT: Connectionism: computing with neurons
30: DIANE PROUDFOOT: Child machines
31: JACK COPELAND and DANI PRINZ: Computer chess - the first moments
32: DAVID LEAVITT: Turing and the paranormal
BIOLOGICAL GROWTH
33: MARGARET BODEN: Pioneer of artificial life
34: THOMAS E. WOOLLEY, RUTH BAKER, and PHILIP MAINI: Turing's theory of morphogenesis
35: BERNARD RICHARDS: Radiolaria: validating the Turing theory
Mathematics
36: ROBIN WHITTY and ROBIN WILSON: Introducing Turing's mathematics
37: ROBIN WHITTY: Decidability and the Entscheidungsproblem
38: EDWARD SIMPSON: Banburismus revisited: depths and Bayes
39: ROD DOWNEY: Turing and randomness
40: IVOR GRATTAN-GUINNESS: Turing's mentor, Max Newman
Finale
41: JACK COPELAND, ORON SHAGRIR, and MARK SPREVAK: Is the whole universe a computer?
42: JONATHAN BOWEN: Turing's legacy

About the Author

Jack Copeland FRS NZ is Distinguished Professor in Arts at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he is Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing. He has been script advisor and scientific consultant for a number of recent documentaries about Turing. Jack is Co-Director of the Turing Centre at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, and also Honorary Research Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical
Inquiry at the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2012 he was Royden B. Davis Visiting Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and in
2015-16 was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Israel. A Londoner by birth, he earned a D.Phil. in mathematical logic from the University of Oxford, where he was taught by Turing's great friend Robin Gandy. Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, UK, and of Geometry at Gresham College, London. After graduating from Oxford, he received his Ph.D. degree in number theory from the University of Pennsylvania. He has written and co-edited many
books on graph theory and the history of mathematics, including Four Colors Suffice and Combinatorics: Ancient & Modern. His historical research interests include British mathematics and the history of
graph theory and combinatorics, and he has been President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. An enthusiastic popularizer of mathematics, he won two awards for expository writing from the Mathematical Association of America.
Mark Sprevak is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His primary research interests are in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and metaphysics, with particular focus on the cognitive sciences. He has published articles in, among other places, The Journal of Philosophy, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. His book The Computational Mind is
forthcoming from Routledge.
Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA is Emeritus Professor of Computing at London South Bank University, where he established and headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods in 2000. During 2013-15 he was Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University. Previously he was a lecturer at the University of Reading, a senior researcher at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory's Programming Research Group, and a research assistant at Imperial College, London. Since 1977 he has been involved
with the field of computing in both academia and industry. His books include: Formal Specification and Documentation using Z; High-Integrity System Specification and Design; Formal Methods: State of
the Art and New Directions; and Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture.

Reviews

The Turing Guide has opened up a universe of Turing's other pursuits I knew nothing about, inflating my admiration for him and his work by several orders of magnitude. I doubt that there exists a more complete book about Turing's life and work. A towering figure in the history of computing, but also in history itself, we come to know Turing with a completeness unattained by any preceding work.
*Vint Cerf, Physics World*

This is a welcome addition to the existing generally accessible literature that gives additional testimony of the brilliant mind of Alan Turing. There is historical as well as technical material that will be appreciated also by specialists whatever their discipline: history, mathematics, biology, computer science, or philosophy.
*Adhemar Bultheel, The European Mathematical Society*

A handful of the guide's 33 contributors worked at Bletchley and knew Turing personally. Their reminiscences can be fascinating, funny, even moving. ... But it is, I think, pretty much the last word on the subject. And it will ensure that while we may never decode the whole of Turing's mind, his name will never again be forgotten.
*Andrew Robinson, New Scientist*

...extremely informative, highly readable, and well produced with many photographs and useful figures to aid exposition. The preface states the book was 'written for general readers, and Turing's scientific and mathematical concepts are explained in an accessible way'. This has been achieved with great success. However, those working in a range of fields will also benefit a lot from articles written by experts and pointers to the extended literature.
*David Glass, London Mathematical Society*

The Turing Guide is an important and valuable contribution to our understanding of an extraordinary scientist and the profound and lasting resonances of his work. The essays are deeply researched, well written, and cogently argued, and the book itself is beautifully produced and amply illustrated.
*Ernest Davis, SIAM News*

Splendidly produced and lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings and diagrams, the volume is a valuable source not only of high-level, in-depth, wide-ranging articles but also of rare primary sources from the crucial period in the history of science.
*Carla Petrocelli, Nunicus*

Offers new perspectives, many photos not in the larger volume, and even new topics for consideration, such as one essay titled "Turing and the Paranormal". It is a welcome addition to the Turing literature... Highly recommended.
*, , CHOICE*

With 'The Turing Guide', Oxford University Press has struck the right formula. Breaking the story into several sections allows readers to cherry-pick the bits that are of interest to them, either running through from start to finish or sticking to the biographical chapters and using the pointers to sections which go into more technical depth as they wish.
*Dominic Lenton, E&T Magazine*

"excellent compendium of essays"
*Tom Schulte, MAA Reviews*

...a superb collection of articles written from numerous different perspectives, of the life, times, profound ideas, and enormous heritage of Alan Turing and those around him. We find, here, numerous accounts, both personal and historical, of this great and eccentric man, whose life was both tragic and triumphantly influential.
*Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford*

An excellent compendium of essays covering Alan Turing's life and work, covering everything from his childhood to his final days, from the universal machine to cracking the Enigma, from artificial intelligence to morphogenesis.
*Simon Singh, author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code Book*

There is excellent material on the various aspects of Alan Turing's wide range of contributions I recommend The Turing Guide
*Cliff B. Jones, Formal Aspects of Computing*