Brian Jack Copeland

Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing, an extensive online archive on the computing pioneer Alan Turing, Copeland is a 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 has also written and edited books on Turing.

Copeland 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 served as a Senior Fellow in the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

He has served as President of the US Society for Machines and Mentality and as a member of the UK Bletchley Park Trust Heritage Advisory Panel. Copeland was the founding editor of The Rutherford Journal, established in 2005. He was 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.