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03004aam a2200409Ia 4500 001 29B9F9144A8111E7A5A8299FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170606010538 008 061213t20052003maua 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9780262661911 020 $a 0262661918 035 $a (OCoLC)76961455 040 $a SAC $b eng $c SAC $d BTCTA $d BAKER $d UKM $d BDX $d NHM $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IOO $d OCLCQ $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3616.A58 $b T87 2005 082 04 $a 813.6 $2 22 100 1 $a Papadimitriou, Christos H. 245 10 $a Turing : $b a novel about computation / $c by Christos H. Papadimitriou. 250 $a 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. 260 $a Cambridge, Mass. : $b MIT Press, $c 2005. 300 $a 284 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm 500 $a Originally published: 2003. 520 $a "Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point of view unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair involving Ethel, a successful computer executive, Alexandros, a melancholy archaeologist, and Ian, a charismatic hacker. After Ethel (who shares her first name with Alan Turing's mother) abandons Alexandros following a sun-drenched idyll on Corfu, Turing appears on Alexandros's computer screen to unfurl a tutorial on the history of ideas. He begins with the philosopher-mathematicians of ancient Greece - "discourse, dialogue, argument, proof ... can only thrive in an egalitarian society"--And the Arab scholar in ninth-century Baghdad who invented algorithms; he moves on to many other topics, including cryptography and artificial intelligence, even economics and developmental biology. (These lessons are later critiqued amusingly and developed further in postings by a fictional newsgroup in the book's afterword.) As Turing's lectures progress, the lives of Alexandros, Ethel, and Ian converge in dramatic fashion, and the story takes us from Corfu to Hong Kong, from Athens to San Francisco - and of course to the Internet, the disruptive technological and social force that emerges as the main locale and protagonist of the novel."--Jacket. 600 10 $a Turing, Alan Mathison, $d 1912-1954 $v Fiction. 600 17 $a Turing, Alan Mathison, $d 1912-1954. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00117605 650 0 $a Computer simulation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Computer scientists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mathematicians $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Computer scientists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00872482 650 7 $a Computer simulation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00872518 650 7 $a Mathematicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01012154 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Didactic fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Love stories. $2 gsafd 941 $a 1 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525035730.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=29B9F9144A8111E7A5A8299FDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IOOInitiate Another SILO Locator Search