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E-grāmata: Alan Turing and his Contemporaries: Building the world's first computers

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  • Formāts: 126 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2012
  • Izdevniecība: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
  • Valoda: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781780171067
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  • Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2012
  • Izdevniecība: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
  • Valoda: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781780171067

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Secret wartime projects in 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.

By 1955 computers had begun to appear in the market-place. The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his contemporaries held centre stage. Their influence is still discernable deep down within todays hardware and software.

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Fantastic! This is an excellent romp through early computer history, placing Alan Turings work in a broader context and introducing the reader to some of the significant machines and personalities that created our digital world. The myth of a lone inventor is rarely true - this book leads the reader through complex but intriguing stories of the sung and unsung heroes and machines of a pioneering computing industry. -- Dr Tilly Blyth * Curator of Computing and Information, Science Museum * There can be no doubt that Alan Turing was a brilliant man who changed the course of history in countless ways, but there were many other brilliant minds involved in bringing computer science to life and ultimately into our homes. This fascinating book reminds us of the importance of their contribution. A fitting tribute to those who gave the world so much. -- Kate Russell * technology reporter, BBC Click * A practical, clearly written tour through those early years. -- Erica Wagner * The Times *

Authors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
1 The Ideas Men
1(10)
Science at war
1(2)
The Moore School: the cradle of electronic computing
3(2)
The Universal Turing Machine
5(3)
Practical problems, 1945-7
8(1)
The rich tapestry of projects, 1948-54
8(3)
2 Aces and Deuces
11(10)
Turing's first computer design
11(2)
Toil and trouble
13(1)
Intelligence and artificial intelligence
14(3)
Pilot ACE arrives at last
17(2)
DEUCE and others
19(2)
3 Ivory Towers and Tea Rooms
21(12)
Maurice Wilkes and the Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory
21(1)
Post-war reconstruction and the stored-program computer
22(1)
A Memory for EDSAC
23(1)
EDSAC, ACE and LEO
24(2)
Not just EDSAC
26(2)
First steps in programming
28(3)
Wilkes, Wheeler and Gill
31(1)
The last days of the EDSAC
31(2)
4 The Manchester Machines
33(14)
Memories are made of this ...
33(4)
The Baby computer
37(1)
The Baby grows up
38(3)
Ferranti enters the picture
41(2)
A supercomputer
43(1)
Programs and users
43(2)
What came next?
45(2)
5 Meanwhile, In Deepest Hertfordshire
47(12)
The Admiralty's secret
47(3)
Innovations at Borehamwood
50(3)
Swords into ploughshares
53(2)
The coming of automation
55(4)
6 One Man in a Barn
59(10)
X-ray calculations
59(2)
The challenge of memory
61(1)
Computers for all!
62(2)
The Booth multiplier
64(1)
Commercial success
65(4)
7 Into the Marketplace
69(10)
Out of the laboratory
69(1)
Defence and the Cold War
69(2)
Science and engineering
71(3)
The world of commerce and business
74(2)
The market grows and the manufacturers shrink
76(3)
8 Hindsight and Foresight: The Legacy of Turing and His Contemporaries
79(6)
Who did what, and when?
79(1)
Turing as seen by his contemporaries
80(3)
Turing's reputation by 1984
83(2)
Appendix A Technical Comparison of Five Early British Computers
85(10)
The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), known as the `Baby'
88(1)
The Cambridge EDSAC
89(1)
The Ferranti Mark I's instruction format
90(2)
Instruction format for the English Electric DEUCE
92(3)
Appendix B Turing and Computing: A Timeline
95(10)
Alan Turing at NPL, 1945-8
95(3)
Alan Turing at Manchester, 1948-54
98(7)
Appendix C Further Reading
105(4)
General accounts of the period 1945-60
106(1)
Chapter-specific books
106(3)
Index 109
Chris Burton is one of the world's leading restorers of historic computers. Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly is the UKs foremost computer historian. Dr Roger Johnson is a past President of the British Computer Society. Professor Simon Lavington is the Computer Conservation Societys digital Archivist. All are committee members of the Computer Conservation Society.