| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 15 min.)) : digital |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Great discoveries.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Paul Michael Garcia. |
| Summary |
A "skillful, literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating "treatment" that may have led to his suicide.With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity-his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor-and elegantly explains his work and its implications. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.
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Gay men -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain.
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Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Artificial intelligence -- History.
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| Added Author |
Garcia, Paul Michael, narrator.
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781982415006 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982415002 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11106154 |
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