Edsac Decoded - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edsac Decoded write by Francis Gurtowski. This book was released on 2015-02-05. Edsac Decoded available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The principles of operation of EDSAC, the world's first practical stored-program computer, informed by the author's own software simulation of EDSAC, and bolstered with infographics generated by the same simulator.
Edsac Decoded
Edsac Decoded - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edsac Decoded write by Francis Gurtowski. This book was released on 2015-02-05. Edsac Decoded available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A complete enumeration of the instruction set of EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer.
Prof: Alan Turing Decoded
Prof: Alan Turing Decoded - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prof: Alan Turing Decoded write by Dermot Turing. This book was released on 2015-09-15. Prof: Alan Turing Decoded available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country and it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. It is easy to cast him as a misfit, the stereotypical professor. But actually Alan Turing was never a professor, and his nickname ‘Prof’ was given by his codebreaking friends at Bletchley Park. Now, Alan Turing’s nephew, Dermot Turing, has taken a fresh look at the influences on Alan Turing’s life and creativity, and the later creation of a legend. For the first time it is possible to disclose the real character behind the cipher-text: how did Alan’s childhood experiences influence the man? Who were the influential figures in Alan’s formative years? How did his creative ideas evolve? Was he really a solitary, asocial genius? What was his wartime work after 1942, and why was it kept even more secret than the Enigma story? What is the truth about Alan Turing’s conviction for gross indecency, and did he commit suicide? What is the significance of the Royal Pardon granted in 2013? In Dermot’s own style he takes a vibrant and entertaining approach to the life and work of a true genius.
From Gutenberg to the Internet
From Gutenberg to the Internet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Gutenberg to the Internet write by Jeremy M. Norman. This book was released on 2005. From Gutenberg to the Internet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Gutenberg to the Internet presents 63 original readings from the history of computing, networking, and telecommunications arranged thematically by chapters. Most of the readings record basic discoveries from the 1830s through the 1960s that laid the foundation of the world of digital information in which we live. These readings, some of which are illustrated, trace historic steps from the early nineteenth century development of telegraph systems---the first data networks---through the development of the earliest general-purpose programmable computers and the earliest software, to the foundation in 1969 of ARPANET, the first national computer network that eventually became the Internet. The readings will allow you to review early developments and ideas in the history of information technology that eventually led to the convergence of computing, data networking, and telecommunications in the Internet. The editor has written a lengthy illustrated historical introduction concerning the impact of the Internet on book culture. It compares and contrasts the transition from manuscript to print initiated by Gutenberg's invention of printing by moveable type in the 15th century with the transition that began in the mid-19th century from a print-centric world to the present world in which printing co-exists with various electronic media that converged to form the Internet. He also provided a comprehensive and wide-ranging annotated timeline covering selected developments in the history of information technology from the year 100 up to 2004, and supplied introductory notes to each reading. Some introductory notes contain supplementary illustrations.
Creativity in Invention and Design
Creativity in Invention and Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creativity in Invention and Design write by Subrata Dasgupta. This book was released on 1994-06-24. Creativity in Invention and Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about creativity and the nature of the creative process in technological invention. The author shows how certain ideas in cognitive science and artificial intelligence can be used to analyse, describe and explain an important invention taken from the history of computer technology.
