Jack Copeland

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Jack Copeland at the Alan Turing Centenary Conference 2012

Brian Jack Copeland (* 1950 ) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand city of Christchurch .

There he heads the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies ( Head of School of Philosophy and Religious Studies ), where he has been teaching since 1985. In addition, he is the director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing , which was named after the English computer pioneer Alan Turing , and which is an extensive online archive on the development of computers in general and specifically on it the groundbreaking work of Turing. Copeland himself is the author of several books on Alan Turing.

Jack Copeland earned a bachelor's degree ( BPhil ) and a doctorate in philosophy ( DPhil ) in 1979 from Oxford University, with theses on modal and non-classical logic . He has authored several books and published more than a hundred scientific articles in the fields of philosophy and computer history, as well as a short biography of the logician and philosopher Arthur Norman Prior .

Copeland received the 2017 Barwise Prize .

Works

  • Artificial Intelligence - A Philosophical Introduction . Blackwell, 1993. ISBN 0-631-18385-X
  • Logic and Reality Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior . Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-824060-0
  • Enigma . Publication. Accessed: April 17, 2008. PDF; 0.8 MB
  • The Essential Turing . Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-825080-0
  • Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine - The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-856593-3
  • Colossus - The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers . Oxford University Press 2006. ISBN 0-19-284055-X

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