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200 00$aAlan Turing and his contemporaries$b[electronic resource] $ebuilding the world's first computers /$fSimon Lavington (editor)
210   $aSwindon, U.K. $cBritish Informatics Society Ltd.$d2012
215   $a1 online resource (128 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
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327   $aCopyright; 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
327   $aFIRST 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; COMPUTERS FOR ALL!; THE BOOTH MUTIPLIER; COMMERCIAL SUCCESS; 7 INTO THE MARKETPLACE; OUT OF THE LABORATORY; DEFENCE AND THE COLD WAR
327   $aSCIENCE 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
327   $aAPPENDIX C: FURTHER READINGGENERAL ACCOUNTS OF THE PERIOD 1945-60; CHAPTER-SPECIFIC BOOKS; INDEX; Back Cover
330   $aSecret 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.
606   $aComputers$xHistory
606   $aComputer engineering$xHistory
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