Jack Copeland
Philosopher, Author
1950 –
Who is Jack Copeland?
Brian Jack Copeland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and author of books on computing pioneer Alan Turing.
His 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.
Jack Copeland is the Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, 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, the University of Aarhus, Denmark, the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. In 2000, he was a Senior Fellow in the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.
He is also President of the US Society for Machines and Mentality and a member of the UK Bletchley Park Trust Heritage Advisory Panel. He is the founding editor of The Rutherford Journal, established in 2005.
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- Born
- 1950
United Kingdom - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
- Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Employment
- University of Canterbury
- Lived in
- Christchurch
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on July 23, 2013
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