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Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker

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    Chapter 1 Alan Turing: an Introductory Biography
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    Chapter 2 Alan’s Apple: Hacking the Turing Test
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    Chapter 3 What Would Alan Turing Have Done After 1954?
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    Chapter 4 From Turing to the Information Society
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    Chapter 5 The Mechanization of Mathematics
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    Chapter 6 Hypercomputational Models
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    Chapter 7 Turing’s Ideas and Models of Computation
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    Chapter 8 The Myth of Hypercomputation
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    Chapter 9 Quantum Computers: the Church-Turing Hypothesis Versus the Turing Principle
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    Chapter 10 Implementation of a Self-replicating Universal Turing Machine
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    Chapter 11 Cognitive Science and the Turing Machine: an Ecological Perspective
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    Chapter 12 Can Machines Think?
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    Chapter 13 The Computer, Artificial Intelligence, and the Turing Test
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    Chapter 14 A Note on Enjoying Strawberries with Cream, Making Mistakes, and Other Idiotic Features
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    Chapter 15 Robots and Rule-Following
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    Chapter 16 The Law of Accelerating Returns
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    Chapter 17 The Polish Brains Behind the Breaking of the Enigma Code Before and During the Second World War
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    Chapter 18 Alan Turing at Bletchley Park in World War II
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    Chapter 19 Alan M. Turing’s Contributions to Co-operation Between the UK and the US
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    Chapter 20 Watching the Daisies Grow: Turing and Fibonacci Phyllotaxis
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    Chapter 21 Turing’s Connectionism
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Chapter title
The Law of Accelerating Returns
Chapter number 16
Book title
Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker
Published by
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, January 2004
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-05642-4_16
Book ISBNs
978-3-64-205744-1, 978-3-66-205642-4
Authors

Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil, Ray

Editors

Christof Teuscher

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Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Unknown 109 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 17%
Student > Bachelor 15 14%
Researcher 9 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 24 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 15 14%
Computer Science 15 14%
Engineering 11 10%
Social Sciences 6 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 5%
Other 25 23%
Unknown 32 29%