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Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtualemanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In thisunusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point ofview unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair involving Ethel, a successful computerexecutive, Alexandros, a melancholy archaeologist, and Ian, a charismatic hacker. After Ethel (whoshares her first name with Alan Turing's mother) abandons Alexandros following a sundrenched idyllon Corfu, Turing appears on Alexandros's computer screen to unfurl a tutorial on the history ofideas. He begins with the philosopher-mathematicians of ancient Greece -- "discourse, dialogue,argument, proof... can only thrive in an egalitarian society" -- and the Arab scholar inninth-century Baghdad who invented algorithms; he moves on to many other topics, includingcryptography and artificial intelligence, even economics and developmental biology. (These lessonsare later critiqued amusingly and developed further in postings by a fictional newsgroup in thebook's afterword.) As Turing's lectures progress, the lives of Alexandros, Ethel, and Ian convergein 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 themain locale and protagonist of the novel.Alternately pedagogical and romantic, Turing (A Novel aboutComputation) should appeal both to students and professionals who want a clear and entertainingaccount of the development of computation and to the general reader who enjoys novels ofideas.
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Peter J. Newell is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely on the political economy of the environment, including the books Climate for Change (2000), The Effectiveness of EU Environmental Policy (2000), co-authored with Wyn Grant and Duncan Matthews, Development and the Challenge of Globalisation (2002), co-edited with Shirin M. Rai and Andrew Scott. He currently works on issues of corporate regulation and accountability and the politics of GMO regulation.
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