Jack Copeland

Brian Jack Copeland ( born 1950 ) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.

He heads the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies ( Head of School of Philosophy and Religious Studies), where he has taught since 1985. He is also the Director of the Turing Archive for computer history (The Turing Archive for the History of Computing), which was named after the English computer pioneer Alan Turing, and an extensive online archive generally to the development of the computer and specifically to the pioneering work of Turing provides. Copeland himself is the author of several books about Alan Turing.

Jack Copeland earned a bachelor's degree ( Bphil ) and in 1979 the Ph. D. of Philosophy ( DPhil ) at the UK's Oxford University with work on modal logic and non-classical logic. He has written several books and published more than one hundred scientific articles in the fields of philosophy and computer history as well as a short biography of the logician and philosopher Arthur Norman Prior

Works

  • Artificial Intelligence - A Philosophical Introduction. Blackwell, 1993. ISBN 0-631-18385- X
  • Logic and Reality, Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-824060-0
  • Enigma. Publication. Accessed: April 17, 2008 PDF, . 0.8 MB
  • The Essential Turing. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-825080-0
  • Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine - The Master Codebreaker 's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-856593-3, 2005.
  • Colossus - The Secrets of Bletchley Park 's Code Breaking computer. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-284055- X
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