Alan Turing and his Contemporaries : Building the world's first computers - Simon Lavington

Alan Turing and his Contemporaries

Building the world's first computers

By: Simon Lavington (Editor), Chris Burton (Contribution by), Martin Campbell-Kelly (Contribution by)

Paperback | 11 February 2012

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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 today's hardware and software.
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Fantastic! This is an excellent romp through early computer history, placing Alan Turing’s 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.

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