<div>No other volume provides as broad, as thorough, or as accessible an introduction to the realm of computers as A. K. Dewdney's <i>The Turing Omnibus.</i><br><br>Updated and expanded, <i>The Turing Omnibus</i> offers 66 concise, brilliantly written articles on the major points of interest in computer science theory, technology, and applications. New for this tour: updated information on algorithms, detecting primes, noncomputable functions, and self-replicating computers--plus completely new sections on the Mandelbrot set, genetic algorithms, the Newton-Raphson Method, neural networks that learn, DOS systems for personal computers, and computer viruses.<br></div>