The Universal Turing Machine

List of contributors; Preface; PART 1: A. Hodges: Alan Turing and the Turing Machine; S.C. Kleene: Turing's analysis of computability, and major applications of it; R. Gandy: The confluence of ideas in 1936; S. Feferman: Turing in the Land of O(z); M. Davis: Mathematical logic and the origin of modern computing. PART 2: M.A. Arbib: From universal Turing machines to self-reproduction; M.J. Beeson: Computerizing mathematics: Logic and computation; C.H. Bennett: Logical depth and physical complexity; A.H. Brady: The busy beaver game and the meaning of life; G.J. Chaitin: An algebraic equation for the halting probability; M. Conrad: The price of programmability; E. Dahlhaus & J.A. Makowsky: Gandy's principles for mechanisms as a model of parallel computation; M. Davis: Influences of mathematical logic on computer science; J.E. Fenstad: Language and computations; D. Finkelstein: Finite physics; O. Goldreich: Randomness, interactive proofs, and zero-knowledge - a survey; Y. Gurevich: Algorithms in the world of bounded resources; B. Hasslacher: Beyond the Turing machine; M. Koppel: Structure; J.A. Makowsky: Mental images and the architecture of concepts; D. Michie: The fifth generation's unbridged gap; R. Penrose: On the physics and mathematics of thought; R. Rosen: Effective processes and natural law; H. Schnelle: Turing naturalized: Von Neumann's unfinished project; U. Schöning: Complexity theory and interaction; J.C. Shepherdson: Mechanisms for computing over arbitrary structures; B.A. Trakhtenbrot: Comparing the Church and Turing approaches: two prophetical messages; O. Wiener: Form and content in thinking Turing machines; Appendix.