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

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

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

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

Autore	Ciesla Robert
Edizione	[1st ed. 2024.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (167 pages)
Disciplina	371.33/4
Soggetto topico	Natural language processing (Computer science) Machine learning Artificial intelligence Computers - History Computers and civilization Natural Language Processing (NLP) Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence History of Computing Computers and Society
ISBN	3-031-51004-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preface -- About the Author -- 1. The Challenge of the Turing test -- 2. Developments in Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics -- 3. The Classic Era of Chatbots -- 4. The Current Era of Chatbots -- 5. AI and Chatbots in Healthcare -- 6. Chatbots in eCommerce -- 7. Chatbots as Villains – The Antisocial Uses of AI -- 8. Towards an Artificial General Intelligence.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910800116003321