Jack Copeland Explained

Birth Name:Brian Jack Copeland
Birth Place:United Kingdom
Nationality:British
Fields:Philosophy
Logic
Alan Turing
Workplaces:University of Plymouth
University of Canterbury
Alma Mater:University of Oxford (BPhil, DPhil)
Thesis Url:https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c19f98e4-3163-4195-9fb6-5ac4ea6aa1c0
Thesis Title:Entailment : the formalisation of inference
Thesis Year:1978
Doctoral Advisor:Dana Scott

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.[1] [2]

Education

Copeland was educated at the University of Oxford, obtaining a Bachelor of Philosophy degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1978,[3] where he undertook research on modal logic and non-classical logic supervised by Dana Scott.

Career and research

Jack Copeland is the Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing,[4] 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. With Jason Long he restored some of the first computer music recorded on the Ferranti Mark I.[5]

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[6] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

Copeland is also President of the US Society for Machines and Mentality[7] and a member of the UK Bletchley Park Trust Heritage Advisory Panel. He is the founding editor of The Rutherford Journal, established in 2005.

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
Abbreviation:Rutherford J.
Editor:Jack Copeland[8]
Discipline:History and philosophy of science
Abbreviation:Rutherford J. -->
Publisher:University of Canterbury
Country:New Zealand
History:2005 onwards
Website:http://www.rutherfordjournal.org
Issn:1177-1380
Oclc:145735058
Italic Title:no

Copeland serves as editor-in-chief of The Rutherford Journal, an open-access peer-reviewed online academic journal published in New Zealand[9] that covers the history and philosophy of science and technology.[10] [11] The journal is published as needed and was established in December 2005 by Copeland.[12] 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).[13]

The journal is indexed in various index lists.[14] [15] [16] [17] It was listed in an article on electronic journals in the Journal for the Association of History and Computing[18] and included in the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences.[19] The journal features technology as diverse as totalisators[20] and the CSIRAC computer.[21]

Publications

Awards and honours

Copeland was awarded Lecturer of the Year 2010 by the University of Canterbury's student union.[29]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jack Copeland . University of Canterbury . 16 August 2022.
  2. http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article040101.html Alan Turing: Father of the Modern Computer
  3. DPhil. University of Oxford. Entailment : the formalisation of inference. Brian John. Copeland. 1978. . ox.ac.uk. 863373224.
  4. Web site: Turing Archive for the History of Computing . 16 April 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014022/http://www.alanturing.net/ . 12 October 2018 . dead .
  5. Book: 2017. Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing. 189–218. Springer International Publishing. 10.1007/978-3-319-53280-6_8. Brian Jack. Copeland. Jason. Long. Turing and the History of Computer Music . Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science . 324 . 978-3-319-53278-3 . free.
  6. Web site: Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology . . USA .
  7. http://www.cs.hamilton.edu/~sfmm/ Society for Machines and Mentality
  8. Web site: Distinguished Professor Jack Copeland . . New Zealand . 7 December 2016 .
  9. Web site: New Zealand > Education > Academic Journals . indexNS . 7 December 2016 .
  10. http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/about.html About the Journal
  11. Jenkin . John . Review of Copeland, Jack, ed., The Rutherford Journal: the New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2005) . . 17 . 2 . 2006 . 298–299 .
  12. Web site: Professor Jack Copeland . . . Australia . 4 January 2014 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20150326030020/http://hapi.uq.edu.au/professor-jack-copeland . 26 March 2015 .
  13. Simon . Clarke . Rutherford at Canterbury University College . The Rutherford Journal . 1 . December 2005 .
  14. Web site: The Rutherford Journal . Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources . ROAD . 7 December 2016 .
  15. Web site: The Rutherford Journal . JournalIndex.net . 7 December 2016 .
  16. Web site: Rutherford Journal: the New Zealand journal for the history and philosophy of science and technology . . UK . 7 December 2016 .
  17. Web site: History and Theory of Computation Sites . AlanTuring.net . 4 January 2014 .
  18. News: E-Journals – Inside and Out . Journal of the Association of History and Computing . Ann Arbor, MI . MPublishing . Lynn C. . Westney . 10 . 3 . December 2007 . 2027/spo.3310410.0010.307.
  19. Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences . . 101 . S1 . December 2010 . 1–305 . . 10.1086/660768 . 13335611 .
  20. Web site: Tote Boards: The Impressive Engineering of Horse Gambling . Hackaday . Kristina . Panos . 4 November 2015 . 7 December 2016 .
  21. Web site: Was George Julius the inspiration for CSIRAC, Australia's first electronic digital computer? . Don . McKenzie . Godzilla Sea Monkey . 12 March 2011 . 7 December 2016 .
  22. The essential Turing, Copeland Jack (ed). Pp. 613. £50 (hbk). £14.99 (pbk). 2004. (Oxford University Press) . S. C. . Coutinho . March 2006 . 10.1017/S0025557200179513 . 90 . 517 . 185–186 . . . 164782208 .
  23. News: The Colossus of codes: Georgina Ferry on four new books that tackle the story of Bletchley Park's other decryption machine . Georgina . Ferry . 29 July 2006 . . UK .
  24. His Just Deserts: A Review of Four Books . Alvy Ray . Smith . September 2014 . 891–895 . . 61 . 8 . . 10.1090/noti1155 . free .
  25. News: Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, by Jack Copeland . Tom . Moriarty . 18 January 2015 . .
  26. Review Essay: B. Jack Copeland, Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age (Oxford University Press, 2012) . Colin . Hughes . Summer 2016 . 15 . 2–3 . .
  27. Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, by B. Jack Copeland . Juan A. . Añel . 9 September 2013 . 10.1080/00107514.2013.836246 . 54 . 5 . . 259 . 119031996 .
  28. W. Andrew Robinson . Robinson . Andrew . The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker? . . 4 January 2017 .
  29. Web site: UCSA . CANTA survey . New Zealand . March 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150120191834/http://canta.co.nz/media/uploads/2011_03/Canta_22.pdf . 20 January 2015 .

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