Alan Turing and his Contemporaries

Building the world's first computers

Buch | Softcover

126 Seiten

2012
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (Verlag)
978-1-906124-90-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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 today’s hardware and software.

Chris Burton is one of the world's leading restorers of historic computers. Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly is the UK’s foremost computer historian. Dr Roger Johnson is a past President of the British Computer Society. Professor Simon Lavington is the Computer Conservation Society’s digital Archivist. All are committee members of the Computer Conservation Society.

1.The ideas men.
2.Ivory towers and tea rooms.
3.The Manchester machines
4.Meanwhile, in deepest Hertfordshire
5.One man in a barn
6.Aces and Deuces
7.Into the market place
8.Hindsight and foresight: Turing’s legacy
9.Bibliography and references
10.Timeline: Alan Turing’s life with computers.
11.Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.2.2012
Co-Autor	Chris Burton, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Roger Johnson, Simon Lavington
Zusatzinfo	55 Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	Swindon
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-906124-90-6 / 1906124906
ISBN-13	978-1-906124-90-8 / 9781906124908
Zustand	Neuware