In the late 1990s Mike Yates, in editing the last volume of the Turing Collected Works (see the main bibliography for a description) asked me to contribute two short prefaces on Turing's Treatise on the Enigma and The Nature of Turing and the Physical World. This article, first published in 2002 and updated in 2013, is still available in the SEP. In 1999 Professor Ed Zalta, the editor of the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, invited me to submit an entry on Turing's life and thought. It has also become a chapter in an omnibus book edition of The Great Philosophers. In 1996 Ray Monk invited me to write the short text which appeared in 1997 as Turing: a natural philosopher in the Great Philosophers series which he edited. I have used an expanded version of it as the Short Biography on this website, which was also started off in 1995.
In 1995 I contributed an entry on Alan Turing for the (British) Dictionary of National Biography, which eventually appeared in 2004. The London Sunday Times of carried an article by me on Alan Turing at VE Day, as part of its feature on the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the European war. Herken, Kammerer & Unversagt, Hamburg, and Oxford University Press (1988).
Rolf Herken, who oversaw the translation of my book into German, invited me to contribute an introductory essay Alan Turing and the Turing Machine for the volume he conceived and edited: The Universal Turing Machine, a Half-Century Survey, ed.
This had the antediluvian title of Man Masters Nature (BBC Books, 1987). I contributed to a BBC Radio series on scientists, and wrote a chapter for a related book. The Pet Shop Boys used excerpts in a concert work first performed on 23 July 2014.More details on the Book area of this website. The dramatist Hugh Whitemore used it as the basis for a stage-play (and later TV film) Breaking the Code. My book Alan Turing: the Enigma first appeared in 1983 and has remained in print ever since, with a new British edition in 1992, a new American edition in 2000, and several translations.
I haven't included all the short newspaper and magazine articles or reference book entries. This page gives a listing, in chronological order, of most of my publications concerned with the life and work of Alan Turing. Alan Turing - Publications by Andrew Hodgesįor a guide to this website go to the Alan Turing Home Page
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