Alan Turing and his contemporaries building the world's first computers
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 d...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Swindon, U.K. :
British Informatics Society Ltd
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009634675806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
