The man who Knew too Much : Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
"Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container.
Read by Paul Michael Garcia.
A biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his work was cut short. As an openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in England, he was convicted and forced to undergo a humiliating "treatment" that may have led to his suicide. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity--his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor--and elegantly explains his work and its implications.
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PUBLISHED
Ashland, OR : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 8 audio discs (9 hrs., 30 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781483018386 (library ed.)
1483018385 (library ed.)
9781483018409
1483018407
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Garcia, Paul Michael,
Blackstone Audio, Inc.,
SUBJECTS
Turing, Alan Mathison, -- 1912-1954.
Gay men -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain.
Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Artificial intelligence -- History.