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• The William B. Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series

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  Biography is the most intimate approach to history--and the most entertaining. UMW’s Great Lives lecture series reveals how extraordinary people – some born to privilege and power, others from modest backgrounds – shaped art, literature, science,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Man Who Knew Too Much

  Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

  Leavitt, David, 1961-

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  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.

• Alan Turing

  the Enigma : the Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game

  Hodges, Andrew

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  A biography of Alan Turing, leader in the British effort to crack the Enigma ciphers in WWII.

• The Bletchley Circle

  Cracking a Killer's Code

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  This fictional series is about four former codebreakers at Bletchley Park investigating a series of murders.

• The Code Book

  the Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

  Singh, Simon

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  The history and science of codes and codebreaking.

• Decoding Alan Turing

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  A documentary on Alan Turing: mathematician, logician and cryptographer.

• The Essential Turing

  Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life, Plus the Secrets of Enigma

  Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954

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  Alan Turing's key writings on computing and theories on technologies.

• The Imitation Game

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  A movie based on Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.

• A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

  Levin, Janna

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  This fictional work reimagines the lives of Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.

• Turing's Cathedral

  the Origins of the Digital Universe

  Dyson, George, 1953-

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  Histories of the computer and other digital technologies.

• Unbreakable

  the Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code

  Barone, Rebecca (Rebecca E.)

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  This is a children's history book about the Allied spies and codebreakers who worked to crack the Enigma machine ciphers.