Alan Turing: The Enigma The Centenary Edition

Why read it

• You will understand how the shape of British computing was largely set in a few postwar years, when the ACE was a major public enterprise
• You will weigh the author's claim that vetting, policing and computer records keep Turing's persecution a live issue
• You will see how a pure mathematician's work on logic carried him into secret wartime codebreaking at Bletchley Park

Who it is for

• Computer science student wanting the person behind the machine
• Reader of wartime codebreaking history
• Citizen uneasy about how states police private lives

Contents

1. Foreword
2. Preface to the Centenary Edition
3. Part One
4. THE LOGICAL
5. Bridge Passage to 1 April 1943
6. Part Two
7. THE PHYSICAL

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