George Dyson discusses Turing's Cathedral

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome science historian George Dyson for a discussion of his new book, Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.
“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first… Show more computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same.
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