Jack Copeland FRS NZ is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he is Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing. In 2012 he was Royden B. Davis Visiting Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His books include The Essential Turing (Oxford University Press), Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Codebreaking Computers (Oxford University Press), Alan Turing’s Electronic Brain (Oxford University Press), Logic and Reality (Oxford University Press), and Artificial Intelligence (Blackwell); and he has published more than 100 articles on the philosophy and history of computing, and mathematical and philosophical logic. He is recognised as a leading authority on Turing's work, and in June of 2004, the 50th anniversary of Turing’s death, he delivered the first annual Turing Memorial Lecture at Bletchley Park National Museum and lectured on Turing’s life and work at the Royal Institution of London. He received the Scientific American Sci/Tech Web Award for his on-line archive www.AlanTuring.net. A Londoner by birth, he earned a B.Phil. with Distinction from the University of Oxford followed by a D.Phil. in mathematical logic. At Oxford he was taught by Turing's student and friend Robin Gandy. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles, a visiting professor at the universities of Sydney, Aarhus, Melbourne, and Portsmouth, and a senior fellow of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a past president of the U.S.-based Society for Machines and Mentality and is the founding editor of the Rutherford Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. His latest book, a highly accessible biography of Turing entitled Turing Pioneer of the Information Age, published with Oxford University Press in 2012.
Book Chapter: Turing and the first electronic brains: What the papers said
Proudfoot, Diane and Copeland, Jack (2019). Turing and the first electronic brains: What the papers said. The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind. (pp. 23-37) edited by Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Journal Article: Alan Turing's lost notebook
Copeland, Jack (2017). Alan Turing's lost notebook. Bletchley Park Magazine, 22-23.
Book: The Turing guide
Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak and Robin Wilson eds. (2017). The Turing guide. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak and Robin Wilson eds. (2017). The Turing guide. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Turing : pioneer of the information age
Copeland, B. Jack (2014). Turing : pioneer of the information age. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Artificial intelligence: a philosophical introduction
Copeland, Jack (1993). Artificial intelligence: a philosophical introduction. Oxford, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.
Turing and the first electronic brains: What the papers said
Proudfoot, Diane and Copeland, Jack (2019). Turing and the first electronic brains: What the papers said. The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind. (pp. 23-37) edited by Mark Sprevak and Matteo Colombo. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Turing and the history of computer music
Copeland, B. Jack and Long, Jason (2017). Turing and the history of computer music. Philosophical explorations of the legacy of Alan Turing: Turing 100. (pp. 189-218) edited by Juliet Floyd and Alisa Bokulich. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53280-6_8
Copeland, B. J. (2016). Alan Turing. Encyclopaedia Britannica. (pp. x-x) Online: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The stored-program universal computer: did Zuse anticipate Turing and von Neumann?
Copeland, B. Jack and Sommaruga, Giovanni (2015). The stored-program universal computer: did Zuse anticipate Turing and von Neumann?. Turing's revolution: the impact of his ideas about computability. (pp. 43-101) edited by Giovanni Sommaruga and Thomas Strahm. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22156-4_3
Introduction: the 1930s revolution
Copeland, B. Jack, Posy, Carl J. and Shagrir, Oron (2013). Introduction: the 1930s revolution. Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond. (pp. vii-x) edited by B. Jack Copeland, Carl J. Posy and Oron Shagrir. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press Books.
Turing and the physics of the mind
Copeland, B. Jack (2013). Turing and the physics of the mind. Alan Turing: His Work and Impact. (pp. 651-659) edited by Cooper, S. Barry and van Leeuwen, Jan. Waltham, MA, USA: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-386980-7.50034-4
Turing versus Godel on computability and the mind
Copeland, B. Jack and Shagrir, Oron (2013). Turing versus Godel on computability and the mind. Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond. (pp. 1-34) edited by B. Jack Copeland, Carl J. Posy and Oron Shagrir. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
Proudfoot, Diane and Copeland, B. Jack (2012). Artificial intelligence. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science. (pp. 147-182) edited by Eric Margolis, Richard Samuels and Stephen P. Stich. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195309799.013.0007
Copeland, B. Jack and Proudfoot, Diane (2012). Turing and the Computer. Alan Turing's Electronic Brain: The Struggle to Build the ACE, the World's Fastest Computer. (pp. 107-148) edited by B. Jack Copeland.. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Turing's test: a philosophical and historical guide
Copeland, Jack and Proudfoot, Diane (2009). Turing's test: a philosophical and historical guide. Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer. (pp. 119-138) edited by Robert Epstein, Gary Roberts and Grace Beber. Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6710-5_9
Copeland, Jack (2017). Alan Turing's lost notebook. Bletchley Park Magazine, 22-23.
Screen history: the Haeff Memory and Graphics Tube
Copeland, B. Jack, Haeff, Andre A., Gough, Peter and Wright, Cameron (2016). Screen history: the Haeff Memory and Graphics Tube. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 39 (1), 9-28. doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2016.1
Prior, translational semantics, and the Barcan formula
Copeland, B. Jack (2016). Prior, translational semantics, and the Barcan formula. Synthese, 193 (11), 3507-3519. doi: 10.1007/s11229-015-0955-2
Copeland, Jack, Dresner, Eli, Proudfoot, Diane and Shagrir, Oron (2016). Time to reinspect the foundations?: questioning if computer science is outgrowing its traditional foundations. Communications- ACM, 59 (11), 34-36. doi: 10.1145/2908733
The inconceivable popularity of conceivability arguments
Campbell, Douglas, Copeland, Jack and Deng, Zhuo-Ran (2016). The inconceivable popularity of conceivability arguments. Philosophical Quarterly, 67 (267), 223-240. doi: 10.1093/pq/pqw066
Andrei Haeff and the Amazing Microwave Amplifier
Copeland, Jack and Haeff, Andre A. (2015). Andrei Haeff and the Amazing Microwave Amplifier. IEEE Spectrum, 2015 (September), 32-37.
Andrew V. Haeff: Enigma of the Tube Era and Forgotten Computing Pioneer
Copeland, Jack and Haeff, Andre A. (2015). Andrew V. Haeff: Enigma of the Tube Era and Forgotten Computing Pioneer. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 37 (1), 67-74. doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2015.2
Copeland, Jack (2013). Will Turing get his pardon?. The Huffington Post UK
What did Turing establish about the limits of computers and the nature of mathematics?
Copeland, Jack (2013). What did Turing establish about the limits of computers and the nature of mathematics?. Big Questions Online.
Alan Turing: father of the modern computer
Copeland, B. Jack and Proudfoot, Diane (2011). Alan Turing: father of the modern computer. The Rutherford Journal, 4 (1).
Deviant encodings and Turing's analysis of computability
Copeland, B. Jack and Proudfoot, Diane (2010). Deviant encodings and Turing's analysis of computability. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 41 (3), 247-252. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.07.010
Copeland, Jack (2014). Invited lecture. AFO 49th International Science Documentary Festival, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 15-20 April 2014.
Copeland, Jack (2014). Keynote address. AFO 49th International Science Documentary Festival, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 15-20 April 2014.
Copeland, Jack (2013). Hypercomputation. ICCS 2013: 9th International Conference on Cognitive Science, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 27-30 August, 2013.
Hypermachines: a growing shadow
Copeland, Jack (2013). Hypermachines: a growing shadow. Thinking Shadows: Art of Memory and Morphogenesis of Ideal Entities, Bologna, Italy, 13-14 June 2013.
The imitation game: Alan Turing and artificial intelligence
Copeland, Jack (2013). The imitation game: Alan Turing and artificial intelligence. ICCS 2013: 9th International Conference on Cognitive Science, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 27-30 August, 2013.
Tommy Flowers and the birth of the electronic digital computer
Copeland, Jack (2013). Tommy Flowers and the birth of the electronic digital computer. Codebreakers' Legacy, Bletchley Park, UK, 9 November, 2013.
Restoring the first recording of computer music
Copeland, Jack and Long, Jason (2016). Restoring the first recording of computer music. Sound and Vision blog, online: British Library.
Copeland, Jack (2014). Interview with Jack Copeland, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing. Ultimo, NSW, Australia: ABC Radio National.
Why Eugene Goostman did not pass the Turing Test
Copeland, Jack (2014, 06 10). Why Eugene Goostman did not pass the Turing Test HuffPost Tech
Comment Les Maths Ont Vaincu Hitler: La drole de guerre d'Alan Turing
Copeland, Jack (2014). Comment Les Maths Ont Vaincu Hitler: La drole de guerre d'Alan Turing. Paris, France: Les Films D'Ici.
What Apple and Microsoft owe to Turing
Copeland, Jack (2013, 12 08). What Apple and Microsoft owe to Turing The Huffington Post
Copeland, Jack (2013, 08 19). Pardon the digital warrior? The World Post