Books

Books : reviews

Rolf Herken, ed.
The Universal Turing Machine: a half-century survey.
OUP. 1988

Contents

• Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing and the Turing Machine. 1988
• Stephen C. Kleene. Turing's analysis of computability, and major applications of it. 1988
• Robin Gandy. The confluence of ideas in 1936. 1988
• Solomon Feferman. Turing in the Land of O(z). 1988
• Martin Davis. Mathematical logic and the origin of modern computing. 1988
• Michael A. Arbib. From Universal Turing Machines to self-reproduction. 1988
• Michael J. Beeson. Computerizing mathematics: logic and computation. 1988
• Charles H. Bennett. Logical depth and physical complexity. 1988
• Allen H. Brady. The Busy Beaver game and the meaning of Life. 1988
• Gregory J. Chaitin. An algebraic equation for the halting probability. 1988
• Michael Conrad. The price of programmability. 1988
• Elias Dahlhaus, Johann A. Makowsky. Gandy's principles for mechanisms as a model of parallel computation. 1988
• Martin Davis. Influences of mathematical logic on computer science. 1988
• Jens Erik Fenstad. Language and computations. 1988
• David Finkelstein. Finite physics. 1988
• Oded Goldreich. Randomness, interactive proofs, and zero-knowledge -- a survey. 1988
• Yuri Gurevich. Algorithms in the world of bounded resources. 1988
• Brosl Hasslacher. Beyond the Turing Machine. 1988
• Moshe Koppel. Structure. 1988
• Johann A. Makowsky. Mental images and the architecture of concepts. 1988
• Donald Michie. The Fifth Generation's unbridged gap. 1988
• Roger Penrose. On the physics and mathematics of thought. 1988
• Robert Rosen. Effective processes and natural law. 1988
• Helmut Schnelle. Turing naturalized: von Neumann's unfinished project. 1988
• Uwe Schoning. Complexity theory and interactions. 1988
• John C. Shepherdson. Mechanisms for computing over arbitrary structures. 1988
• Boris A. Trakhtenbrot. Comparing the Church and Turing approaches: two prophetical messages. 1988
• Oswald Wiener. Form and content in thinking Turing Machines. 1988