Reflections of Alan Turing: A Relative Story

by Dermot Turing

Overview

Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing.

Except …

When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything – was Alan Turing actually a codebreaker? What did he make of artificial intelligence? What is the significance of Alan Turing's trial, his suicide, the Royal Pardon, the £50 note and the film The Imitation Game?

In Reflections of Alan Turing, Dermot strips off the layers to uncover the real story. It's time to discover a fresh legacy of Alan Turing for the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750997072
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	04/22/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Dermot Turing is the acclaimed author of Prof, a biography of his famous uncle, The Story of Computing, and most recently X, Y and Z – the real story of how Enigma was broken. He began writing in 2014 after a career in law and is a regular speaker at historical and other events. As well as writing and speaking, he is a trustee of The Turing Trust and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford. Dermot is married with two sons and lives in Kippen in Stirlingshire.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Family Trees 9

Foreword Kayisha Payne 11

Reflections 15

Raj 19

X-Ray 33

Compute 55

Geheim 75

Robot 101

Postbag 131

Apple 157

Icon 175

Notes 195

Further Reading 201

Index 204