Professor Brian Jack Copeland

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, he received a BPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford in philosophy, where he undertook research on modal and non-classical logic. He 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 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[2] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. He is 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. He was recently awarded Lecturer of the Year 2010 by the University of Canterbury's student union, the UCSA. Among his published works are: "Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction" (Blackwell, 1993, 2nd edition due) ISBN 0-631-18385-X; "Logic and Reality Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior" (Oxford University Press, 1996) ISBN 0-19-824060-0; "The Essential Turing" (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-19-825080-0; "Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer" (Oxford University Press, 2005) ISBN 0-19-856593-3; and "Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers" (Oxford University Press, 2006) ISBN 0-19-284055-X