Alan Turing by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Sanchez Vegara’s Alan Turing explores the life of one of the world’s most talented computer scientists. Enamoured by numbers at a young age, Turing would go on to crack the Enigma code during World War II. I appreciate that the author handled certain parts of Turing’s life with […]
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco and Seattle Book Reviews Rather than being a book about Turing the man, Warwick and Shah focus specifically on Turing’s famous Imitation Game, a tool for judging artificial intelligence, or rather, can a given machine ‘think’? This game asks the question ‘can a hidden machine fool […]