Jack Copeland

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Jack Copeland
Born
Brian Jack Copeland

1950 (age 73–74)
United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BPhil, DPhil)
Scientific career
FieldsPhilosophy
Logic
Alan Turing
InstitutionsUniversity of Plymouth
University of Canterbury
ThesisEntailment : the formalisation of inference (1978)
Doctoral advisorDana Scott[1]
Websitewww.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/contact-us/people/jack-copeland.html

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.[2][3][4]

Education

Copeland was educated at the University of Oxford, obtaining a Bachelor of Philosophy degree[when?] and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1978,[5] where he undertook research on modal logic and non-classical logic supervised by Dana Scott.[1]

Career and research

Jack Copeland is the Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing,

Ferranti Mark I.[7]

Copeland has held visiting professorships at 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[8] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, United States.

Copeland is also President of the US Society for Machines and Mentality

The Rutherford Journal
, established in 2005.

Jack Copeland at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland), October 2013

Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot suggested the establishment of a Turing Center in Zurich during a guest stay at ETH Zurich in 2012. The idea was implemented and ETH Zurich was able to open the Turing Center Zurich in 2015. It is operational organizes regular conferences on questions related to computer, artificial intelligence and other.

The Rutherford Journal

The Rutherford Journal
OCLC no.
145735058
Links

Copeland serves as

open-access peer-reviewed online academic journal published in New Zealand[11] that covers the history and philosophy of science and technology.[12][13] The journal is published as needed and was established in December 2005 by Copeland.[14] 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).[15]

The journal is indexed in various index lists.

totalisators[22] and the CSIRAC computer.[23]

Publications


Awards and honours

Copeland was awarded Lecturer of the Year 2010 by the University of Canterbury's student union.[31]

References

  1. ^ a b Jack Copeland at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Jack Copeland". University of Canterbury. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  3. ^ Alan Turing: Father of the Modern Computer
  4. ^ Jack Copeland at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  5. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.452218
    .
  6. ^ "Turing Archive for the History of Computing". Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2007.
  7. ISBN 978-3-319-53278-3
    .
  8. ^ "Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology". USA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  9. ^ Society for Machines and Mentality Archived 8 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine, USA.
  10. ^ "Distinguished Professor Jack Copeland". New Zealand: University of Canterbury. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  11. ^ "New Zealand > Education > Academic Journals". indexNS. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  12. ^ About the Journal, The Rutherford Journal.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. The University of Queensland. Archived from the original on 26 March 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link
    )
  15. ^ Clarke, Simon (December 2005). "Rutherford at Canterbury University College". The Rutherford Journal. 1.
  16. ^ "The Rutherford Journal". Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources. ROAD. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  17. ^ "The Rutherford Journal". JournalIndex.net. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  18. ^ "Rutherford Journal: the New Zealand journal for the history and philosophy of science and technology". UK: Intute. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  19. ^ "History and Theory of Computation Sites". AlanTuring.net. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  20. hdl:2027/spo.3310410.0010.307
    .
  21. S2CID 13335611
    .
  22. ^ Panos, Kristina (4 November 2015). "Tote Boards: The Impressive Engineering of Horse Gambling". Hackaday. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. S2CID 164782208
    .
  25. ^ 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.
  26. ^
    doi:10.1090/noti1155
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  27. ^ Moriarty, Tom (18 January 2015). "Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, by Jack Copeland". The Irish Times.
  28. Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture
    . 15 (2–3).
  29. S2CID 119031996
    .
  30. ^ Robinson, Andrew (4 January 2017). "The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker?". New Scientist.
  31. ^ "CANTA survey" (PDF). New Zealand: UCSA. March 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2015.
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