Alan Turing and his contemporaries [[electronic resource] ] : building the world's first computers / / Simon Lavington (editor)
| Alan Turing and his contemporaries [[electronic resource] ] : building the world's first computers / / Simon Lavington (editor) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Swindon, U.K., : British Informatics Society Ltd., 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
| Disciplina |
004
004.0922 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LavingtonSimon |
| Soggetto topico |
Computers - History
Computer engineering - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-78017-105-6
1-78017-106-4 1-78017-107-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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; 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453507003321 |
| Swindon, U.K., : British Informatics Society Ltd., 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Alan Turing and his contemporaries [[electronic resource] ] : building the world's first computers / / Simon Lavington (editor)
| Alan Turing and his contemporaries [[electronic resource] ] : building the world's first computers / / Simon Lavington (editor) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Swindon, U.K., : British Informatics Society Ltd., 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
| Disciplina |
004
004.0922 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LavingtonSimon |
| Soggetto topico |
Computers - History
Computer engineering - History |
| ISBN |
1-78017-105-6
1-78017-106-4 1-78017-107-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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; 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791100703321 |
| Swindon, U.K., : British Informatics Society Ltd., 2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Algorithmic Dimension : Five Artists in Conversation / / by Francesca Franco
| The Algorithmic Dimension : Five Artists in Conversation / / by Francesca Franco |
| Autore | Franco Francesca |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Disciplina | 929.605 |
| Collana | Springer Series on Cultural Computing |
| Soggetto topico |
Application software
User interfaces (Computer systems) Human-computer interaction Coding theory Information theory Computers - History Computer and Information Systems Applications User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Coding and Information Theory History of Computing |
| ISBN |
9783319611679
9783319611662 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Interview with Ernest Edmonds -- Interview with Manfred Mohr -- Interview with Vera Molnar -- Interview with Frieder Nake -- Interview with Roman Verostko -- Visual Documentation. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910631095203321 |
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Annals of the history of computing
| Annals of the history of computing |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [New York, NY, etc., : Springer-Verlag, etc.] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 001.6/09 |
| Soggetto topico |
Electronic data processing - History
Computers - History Informatica Geschiedenis Informatique - Histoire Ordinateurs - Histoire Informàtica Història de la informàtica |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Revistes electròniques |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996280831903316 |
| [New York, NY, etc., : Springer-Verlag, etc.] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Annals of the history of computing
| Annals of the history of computing |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [New York, NY, etc., : Springer-Verlag, etc.] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 001.6/09 |
| Soggetto topico |
Electronic data processing - History
Computers - History Informatica Geschiedenis Informatique - Histoire Ordinateurs - Histoire Informàtica Història de la informàtica |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Revistes electròniques. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910625176803321 |
| [New York, NY, etc., : Springer-Verlag, etc.] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice II : IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, TC 12: IFIP AI 2008 Stream, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy / / edited by Max Bramer
| Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice II : IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, TC 12: IFIP AI 2008 Stream, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy / / edited by Max Bramer |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2008.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVIII, 462 p.) |
| Disciplina |
535.2
537.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | BramerMax |
| Collana | IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence
Electrodynamics Computer science Computers - History Artificial Intelligence Classical Electrodynamics Theory of Computation History of Computing |
| ISBN |
9780387096957
0387096957 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Agents 1 -- A Light-Weight Multi-Agent System Manages 802.11 Mesh Networks -- Decisions with multiple simultaneous goals and uncertain causal effects -- Agent Based Frequent Set Meta Mining: Introducing EMADS -- Agents 2 -- On the evaluation of MAS development tools -- Information-Based Planning and Strategies -- Teaching Autonomous Agents to Move in a Believable Manner within Virtual Institutions -- Data Mining -- Mining Fuzzy Association Rules from Composite Items -- P-Prism: A Computationally Efficient Approach to Scaling up Classification Rule Induction -- Applying Data Mining to the Study of Joseki -- A Fuzzy Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines Approach to Hypertext Categorization -- Neural Networks -- Estimation of Neural Network Parameters for Wheat Yield Prediction -- Enhancing RBF-DDA Algorithm’s Robustness: Neural Networks Applied to Prediction of Fault-Prone Software Modules -- Learning -- A Study with Class Imbalance and Random Sampling for a Decision Tree Learning System -- Answer Extraction for Definition Questions using Information Gain and Machine Learning -- Batch Reinforcement Learning for Controlling a Mobile Wheeled Pendulum Robot -- Knowledge Management -- Optimizing Relationships Information in Repertory Grids -- Modeling Stories in the Knowledge Management Context to Improve Learning Within Organizations -- Knowledge Modeling Framework for System Engineering Projects -- Foundations -- Machines with good sense: How can computers become capable of sensible reasoning? -- Making Use of Abstract Concepts–Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Ambient Intelligence -- Making Others Believe What They Want -- Foundation for Virtual Experiments to Evaluate Thermal Conductivity of Semi- and Super-Conducting Materials -- Applications 1 -- Intelligent Systems Applied to Optimize Building’s Environments Performance -- A Comparative Analysis of One-class Structural Risk Minimization by Support Vector Machines and Nearest Neighbor Rule -- Estimation of the Particle Size Distribution of a Latex using a General Regression Neural Network -- Intelligent Advisory System for Designing Plastics Products -- Applications 2 -- Modeling the Spread of Preventable Diseases: Social Culture and Epidemiology -- An Intelligent Decision Support System for the Prompt Diagnosis of Malaria and Typhoid Fever in the Malaria Belt of Africa -- Detecting Unusual Changes of Users Consumption -- Techniques -- Optimal Subset Selection for Classification through SAT Encodings -- Multi-objective Model Predictive Optimization using Computational Intelligence -- An Intelligent Method for Edge Detection based on Nonlinear Diffusion -- Semantic Web -- A Survey of Exploiting WordNet in Ontology Matching -- Using Competitive Learning between Symbolic Rules as a Knowledge Learning Method -- Knowledge Conceptualization and Software Agent based Approach for OWL Modeling Issues -- Representation, Reasoning and Search -- Context Search Enhanced by Readability Index -- Towards an Enhanced Vector Model to Encode Textual Relations: Experiments Retrieving Information -- Efficient Two-Phase Data Reasoning for Description Logics -- Some Issues in Personalization of Intelligent Systems: An Activity Theory Approach for Meta Ontology Development -- Short Papers -- Smart communications network management through a synthesis of distributed intelligence and information -- An Abductive Multi-Agent System for Medical Services Coordination -- A New Learning Algorithm for Neural Networks with Integer Weights and Quantized Non-linear Activation Functions -- Neural Recognition of Minerals -- Bayesian Networks Optimization Based on Induction Learning Techniques -- Application of Business Intelligence for Business Process Management -- Learning Life Cycle in Autonomous Intelligent Systems -- A Map-based Integration of Ontologies into an Object-Oriented Programming Language. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910485052203321 |
| New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Between human and machine [[electronic resource] ] : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics / / David A. Mindell
| Between human and machine [[electronic resource] ] : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics / / David A. Mindell |
| Autore | Mindell David A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
| Disciplina | 004/.09 |
| Collana | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Computers - History
Electronic data processing - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9780801877741
0-8018-7774-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: A History of Control Systems; 2 Naval Control Systems: The Bureau of Ordnance and the Ford Instrument Company; 3 Taming the Beasts of the Machine Age: The Sperry Company; 4 Opening Black's Box: Bell Labs and the Transmission of Signals; 5 Artificial Representation of Power Systems: Analog Computing at MIT; 6 Dress Rehearsal for War: The Four Horsemen and Palomar; 7 Organizing for War: The Fire Control Divisions of the NDRC; 8 The Servomechanisms Laboratory and Fire Control for the Masses; 9 Analog's Finest Hour
10 Radar and System Integration at the Radiation Laboratory11 Cybernetics and Ideas of the Digital; 12 Conclusion: Feedback and Information in 1945; APPENDIX A: Algorithm of the Ford Rangekeeper Mark 1; APPENDIX B: NDRC Section D-2 and Division 7 Contracts for Fire Control; APPENDIX C: Algorithm of Bell Labs' T-10 Director; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455048203321 |
Mindell David A
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Between human and machine [[electronic resource] ] : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics / / David A. Mindell
| Between human and machine [[electronic resource] ] : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics / / David A. Mindell |
| Autore | Mindell David A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
| Disciplina | 004/.09 |
| Collana | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Computers - History
Electronic data processing - History |
| ISBN |
9780801877741
0-8018-7774-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: A History of Control Systems; 2 Naval Control Systems: The Bureau of Ordnance and the Ford Instrument Company; 3 Taming the Beasts of the Machine Age: The Sperry Company; 4 Opening Black's Box: Bell Labs and the Transmission of Signals; 5 Artificial Representation of Power Systems: Analog Computing at MIT; 6 Dress Rehearsal for War: The Four Horsemen and Palomar; 7 Organizing for War: The Fire Control Divisions of the NDRC; 8 The Servomechanisms Laboratory and Fire Control for the Masses; 9 Analog's Finest Hour
10 Radar and System Integration at the Radiation Laboratory11 Cybernetics and Ideas of the Digital; 12 Conclusion: Feedback and Information in 1945; APPENDIX A: Algorithm of the Ford Rangekeeper Mark 1; APPENDIX B: NDRC Section D-2 and Division 7 Contracts for Fire Control; APPENDIX C: Algorithm of Bell Labs' T-10 Director; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780033803321 |
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Birthing the computer : from relays to vacuum tubes / / by Stephen H. Kaisler
| Birthing the computer : from relays to vacuum tubes / / by Stephen H. Kaisler |
| Autore | Kaisler Stephen H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 004.09 |
| Soggetto topico | Computers - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4438-9631-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466215203321 |
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| Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2016 | ||
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Birthing the computer : from relays to vacuum tubes / / by Stephen H. Kaisler
| Birthing the computer : from relays to vacuum tubes / / by Stephen H. Kaisler |
| Autore | Kaisler Stephen H. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 004.09 |
| Soggetto topico | Computers - History |
| ISBN | 1-4438-9631-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792740103321 |
Kaisler Stephen H.
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| Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2016 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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