Jack Copeland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he is Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing. His books include The Essential Turing (Oxford University Press), Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers (Oxford University Press), Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (Oxford University Press), Logic and Reality: Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior (Oxford University Press), and Artificial Intelligence (Blackwell). He has published more than 100 articles on the philosophy and history of computing, and mathematical and philosophical logic.
This book is highly entertaining and informative Zentralblatt Math, Teodora-Liliana Radulescu Fans drawn to the Turing biopic ... should move on to this lively biography of the scientific genius who cracked Enigma Independent [T]hanks to Professor Copelands book we can walk with Alan Turing through his finest hours. Jim Young, Glycosmedia This book is entertaining and informative ... Highly recommended. S.M. Frey, CHOICE