(excerpts from my proposal for the book) Anyone who has explored the history, technology, or theory of computers has likely encountered the concept of the Turing Machine. The Turing Machine is an imaginary — not even quite hypothetical — computer invented in 1936 by English mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954) to help solve a question in mathematical logic. As a byproduct, Tur...(展开全部)

(excerpts from my proposal for the book) Anyone who has explored the history, technology, or theory of computers has likely encountered the concept of the Turing Machine. The Turing Machine is an imaginary — not even quite hypothetical — computer invented in 1936 by English mathematician Alan Turing (1912–1954) to help solve a question in mathematical logic. As a byproduct, Tur...(展开全部)

安德鲁·霍奇斯，1949年出生于伦敦城郊，1972年开始研究扭量理论，这是数学家罗杰·彭罗斯开创的、解决物理学根本问题的新方法。霍奇斯对艾伦·图灵如谜的人生深感兴趣，这一半是因为他们都是数学家，另一半是因为他们都是同性恋。70年代，霍奇斯积极投身于同性恋解放运动。1977年，他决心著写一本最详尽的图灵传记，他认为只有这样，才能公正地刻画这位天才的一生。经过多年调查与写作，本书初版于1983年问世。霍奇斯如今已重返本职，在牛津大学瓦德汉学院研究数学。

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times-bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that a...(展开全部)

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times-bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that a...(展开全部)

A renowned brain researcher takes readers on a guided tour of the brain to show what today's cutting-edge scientists now know about how that mysterious and fascinating organ works. Readers gain an up-close and personal view of the human brain--what it is, how it works, how mood-modifying drugs find their targets, and more.

Strategy making is considered the high point of managerial activity. But bombarded by fads and fixes, most managers have been groping blindly to get their arms around the proverbial elephant. Now Henry Mintzberg, author of the award-winning The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, has teamed up with Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel to create a powerful antidote: a comprehensi...(展开全部)

"Give a man an exploit and you make him a hacker for a day; teach a man to exploit bugs and you make him a hacker for a lifetime." -Felix 'FX' Lindner Seemingly simple bugs can have drastic consequences, allowing attackers to compromise systems, escalate local privileges, and otherwise wreak havoc on a system. A Bug Hunter's Diary follows security expert Tobias Klein as he tr...(展开全部)

"Give a man an exploit and you make him a hacker for a day; teach a man to exploit bugs and you make him a hacker for a lifetime." -Felix 'FX' Lindner Seemingly simple bugs can have drastic consequences, allowing attackers to compromise systems, escalate local privileges, and otherwise wreak havoc on a system. A Bug Hunter's Diary follows security expert Tobias Klein as he tr...(展开全部)

What can artificial intelligence teach us about the mind? If AI's underlying concept is that thinking is a computational process, then how can computation illuminate thinking? It's a timely question. AI is all the rage, and the buzziest AI buzz surrounds adaptive machine learning: computer systems that learn intelligent behavior from massive amounts of data. This is what power...(展开全部)