Jack Copeland

Brian Jack Copeland (born 1950) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and author of books on the computing pioneer Alan Turing.

For the American transplant surgeon, see Jack Copeland (surgeon).

Jack Copeland
Born
Brian Jack Copeland

1950 (age 69–70)
United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
Known forStudy of Alan Turing
Scientific career
FieldsPhilosophy, logic
InstitutionsUniversity of Plymouth
University of Canterbury
Doctoral advisorDana Scott[1]

Overview

Jack Copeland's education includes a BPhil and a DPhil from the University of Oxford in philosophy, where he undertook research on modal and non-classical logic under the supervision of Dana Scott.[2]

Jack Copeland is the Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing,[3] an extensive online archive on the computing pioneer Alan Turing. He has also written and edited books on Turing. He is one of the people responsible for identifying the concept of hypercomputation and machines more capable than Turing machines.

Copeland has held visiting professorships at the University of Sydney, Australia (1997, 2002), the University of Aarhus, Denmark (1999), the University of Melbourne, Australia (2002, 2003), and the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom (1997–2005). In 2000, he was a Senior Fellow in the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology[4] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

Copeland is also President of the US Society for Machines and Mentality[5] and a member of the UK Bletchley Park Trust Heritage Advisory Panel. He is the founding editor of The Rutherford Journal, established in 2005.

Copeland was awarded Lecturer of the Year 2010 by the University of Canterbury's student union.[6]

The Rutherford Journal
The Rutherford Journal
DisciplineHistory and philosophy of science
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJack Copeland[7]
Publication details
History2005 onwards
Publisher
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Rutherford J.
Indexing
ISSN1177-1380
OCLC no.145735058
Links

Jack Copeland is editor-in-chief of The Rutherford Journal, an open-access peer-reviewed online academic journal published in New Zealand[8] that covers the history and philosophy of science and technology.[9][10] The journal is published as needed and was established in December 2005 by Copeland.[11] The full text of articles is freely available online in HTML format. The journal is named after the New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), who studied at the Canterbury College (Christchurch).[12]

The journal is indexed in various index lists.[13][14][15][16] It was listed in an article on electronic journals in the Journal for the Association of History and Computing[17] and included in the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences.[18] The journal features technology as diverse as totalisators[19] and the CSIRAC computer.[20]

Books
  • Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction (Blackwell, 1993, 2nd edition due) ISBN 0-631-18385-X
  • Logic and Reality Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior (Oxford University Press, 1996) ISBN 0-19-824060-0
  • The Essential Turing (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-19-825080-0 (pbk); ISBN 0 19 825079 7 (hbk)[21]
  • 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[22]
  • Alan Turing’s Electronic Brain: The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World’s Fastest Computer (Oxford University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-0199609154[23]
  • Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond (MIT Press, 2013). ISBN 978-0262527484 (with Carl Posy and Oron Shagrir)
  • Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age (Oxford University Press, 2014: Paperback edition) ISBN 978-0198719182[23][24][25][26]
  • The Turing Guide (Oxford University Press, 2017) ISBN 978-0198747826 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0198747833 (paperback)[27] (with Jonathan Bowen, Robin Wilson, Mark Sprevak, et al.)
gollark: .
gollark: Beats java, though
gollark: It's kind of a stupidly convoluted mess with bits bolted on everywhere.
gollark: It's different but exists.
gollark: That's pretty cool, though.

References
  1. Jack Copeland at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "John Copeland". Mathematics Genealogy Project. North Dakota State University. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  3. "Turing Archive for the History of Computing". Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2007.
  4. "Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology". USA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  5. Society for Machines and Mentality Archived 8 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine, USA.
  6. "CANTA survey" (PDF). New Zealand: UCSA. March 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2013.
  7. "Distinguished Professor Jack Copeland". New Zealand: University of Canterbury. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  8. "New Zealand > Education > Academic Journals". indexNS. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  9. About the Journal, The Rutherford Journal.
  10. Jenkin, John (2006). "Review of Copeland, Jack, ed., The Rutherford Journal: the New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2005)". Historical Records of Australian Science. 17 (2): 298–299.
  11. "Professor Jack Copeland". Archive.org. Australia: The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 26 March 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2014.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  12. Clarke, Simon (December 2005). "Rutherford at Canterbury University College". The Rutherford Journal. 1.
  13. "The Rutherford Journal". Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources. ROAD. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  14. "The Rutherford Journal". JournalIndex.net. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  15. "Rutherford Journal: the New Zealand journal for the history and philosophy of science and technology". UK: Intute. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  16. "History and Theory of Computation Sites". AlanTuring.net. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  17. Westney, Lynn C. (December 2007). "E-Journals – Inside and Out". Journal of the Association of History and Computing. 10 (3). Ann Arbor, MI: MPublishing. hdl:2027/spo.3310410.0010.307.
  18. "Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences". Isis. University of Chicago Press / History of Science Society. 101 (S1): 1–305. December 2010. doi:10.1086/660768.
  19. Panos, Kristina (4 November 2015). "Tote Boards: The Impressive Engineering of Horse Gambling". Hackaday. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  20. McKenzie, Don (12 March 2011). "Was George Julius the inspiration for CSIRAC, Australia's first electronic digital computer?". Godzilla Sea Monkey. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  21. Coutinho, S. C. (March 2006). "The essential Turing, Copeland Jack (ed). Pp. 613. £50 (hbk). £14.99 (pbk). 2004. (Oxford University Press)". The Mathematical Gazette. Cambridge University Press. 90 (517): 185–186. doi:10.1017/S0025557200179513.
  22. Ferry, Georgina (29 July 2006). "The Colossus of codes: Georgina Ferry on four new books that tackle the story of Bletchley Park's other decryption machine". The Guardian. UK.
  23. Smith, Alvy Ray (September 2014). "His Just Deserts: A Review of Four Books" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. American Mathematical Society: 891–895.
  24. Moriarty, Tom (18 January 2015). "Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, by Jack Copeland". The Irish Times.
  25. Hughes, Colin (Summer 2016). "Review Essay: B. Jack Copeland, Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age (Oxford University Press, 2012)". Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture. 15 (2–3).
  26. Añel, Juan A. (9 September 2013). "Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, by B. Jack Copeland". Contemporary Physics. 54 (5). doi:10.1080/00107514.2013.836246Colin.
  27. Robinson, Andrew (4 January 2017). "The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?". New Scientist.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.