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CRRL Picks - Great Lives 2023 - Alan Turing

Thursday, January 19, The AES Corporation Lecture, given by David Leavitt, author of The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

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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,…
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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

    Leavitt, David, 1961-
    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.
    Book, 20122012. — 921 Turin
  • Alan Turing

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

    Hodges, Andrew
    A biography of Alan Turing, leader in the British effort to crack the Enigma ciphers in WWII.
    Book, 2014Princeton, [N. J.] : Princeton University Press, 2014. — 921 Turin
  • The Bletchley Circle

    Cracking a Killer's Code

    This fictional series is about four former codebreakers at Bletchley Park investigating a series of murders.
    DVD, 2013[United States] : PBS Distribution, [2013] — 7.9145 Bl
  • The Code Book

    the Science of Secrecy From Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

    Singh, Simon
    The history and science of codes and codebreaking.
    Book, 2000New York : Anchor Books, 2000, ©1999. — 652.8 Si
  • A documentary on Alan Turing: mathematician, logician and cryptographer.
    Streaming Video, 2015[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
  • The Essential Turing

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

    Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954
    Alan Turing's key writings on computing and theories on technologies.
    eBook, 2004Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. — 510 Tu
  • A movie based on Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley.
    DVD, 2015Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2015. — 7.914 Im
  • This fictional work reimagines the lives of Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing.
    Book, 2006New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. — FICTION Lev
  • Turing's Cathedral

    the Origins of the Digital Universe

    Dyson, George, 1953-
    Histories of the computer and other digital technologies.
    Book, 2012New York : Pantheon Books, [2012], ©2012. — 004.09 Dy
  • Unbreakable

    the Spies Who Cracked the Nazis' Secret Code

    Barone, Rebecca (Rebecca E.)
    This is a children's history book about the Allied spies and codebreakers who worked to crack the Enigma machine ciphers.
    Book, 2022New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022. — 940.5485 Ba