The book includes 42 contributed chapters by a variety of authors, including some contemporaries of Alan Turing. The book was published in January 2017 by Oxford University Press,[2] in hardcover, paperback, and e-book formats.
The Turing Guide is divided into eight main parts, covering various aspects of Alan Turing's life and work:[3]
Biography: Biographical aspects of Alan Turing.
The Universal Machine and Beyond: Turing's universal machine (now known as a Turing machine), developed while at King's College, Cambridge, which provides a theoretical framework for reasoning about computation, a starting point for the field of theoretical computer science.
Artificial Intelligence and the Mind: Turing's pioneering and philosophical contribution to machine intelligence (now known as Artificial Intelligence or AI), including the Turing test.
Biological Growth: Morphogenesis, Turing's last major scientific contribution, on the generation of complex patterns through chemical processes in biology and on the mathematics behind them, foundational in mathematical biology.
Mathematics: Some of Turing's mathematical achievements, including one of his most significant influences, Max Newman.
Finale: Turing in a wider subsequent context, including his influence and legacy to science and in the public consciousness.
The book includes a foreword by Andrew Hodges, preface, notes on the contributors, endnotes, and an index.
This artwork for the book's cover came about after a mock-up digital artwork in the style of the multiple images of Andy Warhol was produced.[16] Jack Copeland then organized a more professional artwork,[17] which became the basis for the eventual book cover.[18] In 2023, the artwork was display as part of a digital art exhibition organized by the Computer Arts Society at the BCS in London.[19]
^Bowen, Jonathan P. (2016). Alan Turing: Virtuosity and visualisation. EVA London 2016: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. Electronic Workshops in Computing. BCS. doi:10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.40.
^Copeland, Jack; Fitzpatrick, Peter; Hyde, Vicki (2016). "Turing Diptych". AlanTuring.net: The Turing Archive for the History of Computing. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
^Bowen, Jonathan P.; Trickett, Terry; Green, Jeremy B. A.; Lomas, Andy (2018). Turing’s Genius – Defining an apt microcosm. EVA London 2018: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. Electronic Workshops in Computing. BCS. doi:10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.31.