Faster than Thought : A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines
by Bowden. B.V
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- Near Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
:Begun as a sales brochure, this work became the most widely read early English introduction to electronic computing, remaining in print without changes as late as 1968. It was edited by Bowden, and employee of Ferranti Limited witth a doctorate from Cambridge who was probably the first electronic computer salesman in England. The text by Bowen and twenty-four authors, of which only one was American, has a distinctly British bias with relatively little information about American machines....the work contains much information on Babbage (including a reprint of the Lovelace translation of Menabrea's paper;..) and chapters on British computer projects of the 1940s and early 1950s...Turing's chapter documents his moderately successful work on programming the Manchester machine to imitate human thought processes, in this case game-playing. He described the first machine capable of playing a complete game of chess...." (Origins of Cyberspace #505)
LITERATURE:
Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace, Novato, CA, 2002.
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- Bookseller
- Kuenzig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29202
- Title
- Faster than Thought : A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines
- Author
- Bowden. B.V
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Pitman Publishing Corporation
- Place of Publication
- New York, Toronto, London
- Date Published
- 1966
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