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1 online resource (xiv, 111 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes index. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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APPENDIX C: FURTHER READINGGENERAL ACCOUNTS OF THE PERIOD 1945-60; CHAPTER-SPECIFIC BOOKS; INDEX; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
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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Turing, Alan, 1912-1954.
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Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954.
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Turing, Alan, 1912-1954 |
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Computers -- History.
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Computer engineering -- History.
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Ordinateurs -- Histoire. |
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Ordinateurs -- Conception et construction -- Histoire. |
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Computer engineering |
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Computers |
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History
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Lavington, Simon.
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BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
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9781780171050 |
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9781906124908 |
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9781780171050 (e-book) |
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1780171056 (electronic bk.) |
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9781780171050 (electronic bk.) |
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9781780171067 (ePUB) |
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1780171064 (ePUB) |
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1906124906 |
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9781906124908 |
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