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UNINA9910791100703321 |
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Titolo |
Alan Turing and his contemporaries [[electronic resource] ] : building the world's first computers / / Simon Lavington (editor) |
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Swindon, U.K., : British Informatics Society Ltd., 2012 |
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1-78017-105-6 |
1-78017-106-4 |
1-78017-107-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (128 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Computers - History |
Computer engineering - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Copyright; CONTENTS; AUTHORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; 1 THE IDEAS MEN; SCIENCE AT WAR; THE MOORE SCHOOL: THE CRADLE OF ELECTRONIC COMPUTING; THE UNIVERSAL TURING MACHINE; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS, 1945-7; THE RICH TAPESTRY OF PROJECTS, 1948-54; 2 ACES AND DEUCES; TURING'S FIRST COMPUTER DESIGN; TOIL AND TROUBLE; INTELLIGENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; PILOT ACE ARRIVES AT LAST; 3 IVORY TOWERS AND TEA ROOMS; MAURICE WILKES AND THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL LABORATORY; POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND THE STORED-PROGRAM COMPUTER; A MEMORY FOR EDSAC; EDSAC, ACE AND LEO; NOT JUST EDSAC |
FIRST STEPS IN PROGRAMMINGWILKES, WHEELER AND GILL; THE LAST DAYS OF THE EDSAC; 4 THE MANCHESTER MACHINES; MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS...; THE BABY COMPUTER; THE BABY GROWS UP; FERRANTI ENTERS THE PICTURE; A SUPERCOMPUTER; PROGRAMS AND USERS; WHAT CAME NEXT?; 5 MEANWHILE, IN DEEPEST HERTFORDSHIRE; THE ADMIRALTY'S SECRET; INNOVATIONS AT BOREHAMWOOD; SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES; THE COMING OF AUTOMATION; 6 ONE MAN IN A BARN; X-RAY CALCULATIONS; THE CHALLENGE OF MEMORY; |
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COMPUTERS FOR ALL!; THE BOOTH MUTIPLIER; COMMERCIAL SUCCESS; 7 INTO THE MARKETPLACE; OUT OF THE LABORATORY; DEFENCE AND THE COLD WAR |
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGTHE WORLD OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS; THE MARKET GROWS AND THE MANUFACTURERS SHRINK; 8 HINDSIGHT AND FORESIGHT: THE LEGACY OF TURING AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES; WHO DID WHAT, AND WHEN?; TURING AS SEEN BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES; TURING'S REPUTATION BY 1984; APPENDIX A: TECHNICAL COMPARISON OF FIVE EARLY BRITISH COMPUTERS; THE MANCHESTER SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENTAL MACHINE (SSEM), KNOWN AS THE 'BABY'; INSTRUCTION FORMAT FOR THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC DEUCE; APPENDIX B: TURING AND COMPUTING: A TIMELINE; ALAN TURING AT NPL, 1945-8; ALAN TURING AT MANCHESTER, 1948-54 |
APPENDIX C: FURTHER READINGGENERAL ACCOUNTS OF THE PERIOD 1945-60; CHAPTER-SPECIFIC BOOKS; INDEX; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Secret wartime projects in areas such as code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the post-war period. Their influence is still discernable deep down within today's hardware and software. |
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