Faster Than Thought. A symposium on digital computing machines. Edited by B. V. Bowden, etc

Bertram Vivian Bowden

Verlag: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1953

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. [Published Date: 1953]. Hardcover, 416 pp. First Edition. In acceptable+ condition. Cream cloth covered boards with gold emblem on front and lettering on spine. Moderate scuffing, aging, spotting and soiling to covers with some heavier spotting on the top half of the front cover and some nicking to the cloth along the fore-edge. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Includes frontispiece of Ada Lovelace, 13 plates, and 2 folding tables. A collection of 24 essays by the leading experts in the field at the time. Bertram Vivian Bowden (1910?1989) was educated as a physicist at Cambridge before joining the Ministry of Defence Telecommunications Research Establishment. During the Second World War, he investigated radar and made advances that remained vital to the industry more than twenty years later. Between 1950 and 1953 he worked for the Ferranti corporation, a computer company that specialized in machines for defense and electrical systems, and which introduced the first commercially available computer in 1951. [Excerpt from Preface] "It seems probable that we shall have a second Industrial Revolution on our hands before long In the next revolution machines may replace mens' brains and relieve them of much of the drudgery and boredom which is now the lot of so many white collar workers". Notably, Chapter 25 is an article on computer chess that was one of Alan Turing's final published pieces. Also includes articles on crystallography, meteorology, ballistics, engineering, government calculations, business and commerce, astronomy, and games. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20180223001

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Titel: Faster Than Thought. A symposium on digital ...
Verlag: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1953
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Acceptable
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Missing