Alan Turing and his Contemporaries

Table of contents

1. FRONT COVER
2. HALFTITLE PAGE
3. BCS THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT
4. TITLE
5. COPYRIGHT PAGE
6. CONTENTS
7. AUTHORS
8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
9. PREFACE
10. 1 THE IDEAS MEN
    1. SCIENCE AT WAR
    2. THE MOORE SCHOOL: THE CRADLE OF ELECTRONIC COMPUTING
    3. THE UNIVERSAL TURING MACHINE
    4. PRACTICAL PROBLEMS, 1945–7
    5. THE RICH TAPESTRY OF PROJECTS, 1948–54
11. 2 ACES AND DEUCES
    1. TURING’S FIRST COMPUTER DESIGN
    2. TOIL AND TROUBLE
    3. INTELLIGENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    4. PILOT ACE ARRIVES AT LAST
    5. DEUCE AND OTHERS
12. 3 IVORY TOWERS AND TEA ROOMS
    1. MAURICE WILKES AND THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL LABORATORY
    2. POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND THE STORED-PROGRAM COMPUTER
    3. A MEMORY FOR EDSAC
    4. EDSAC, ACE AND LEO
    5. NOT JUST EDSAC
    6. FIRST STEPS IN PROGRAMMING
    7. WILKES, WHEELER AND GILL
    8. THE LAST DAYS OF THE EDSAC
13. 4 THE MANCHESTER MACHINES
    1. MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS …
    2. THE BABY COMPUTER
    3. THE BABY GROWS UP
    4. FERRANTI ENTERS THE PICTURE
    5. A SUPERCOMPUTER
    6. PROGRAMS AND USERS
    7. WHAT CAME NEXT?
14. 5 MEANWHILE, IN DEEPEST HERTFORDSHIRE
    1. THE ADMIRALTY’S SECRET
    2. INNOVATIONS AT BOREHAMWOOD
    3. SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES
    4. THE COMING OF AUTOMATION
15. 6 ONE MAN IN A BARN
    1. X-RAY CALCULATIONS
    2. THE CHALLENGE OF MEMORY
    3. COMPUTERS FOR ALL!
    4. THE BOOTH MULTIPLIER
    5. COMMERCIAL SUCCESS
16. 7 INTO THE MARKETPLACE
    1. OUT OF THE LABORATORY
    2. DEFENCE AND THE COLD WAR
    3. SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
    4. THE WORLD OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS
    5. THE MARKET GROWS AND THE MANUFACTURERS SHRINK
17. 8 HINDSIGHT AND FORESIGHT: THE LEGACY OF TURING AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
    1. WHO DID WHAT, AND WHEN?
    2. TURING AS SEEN BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES
    3. TURING’S REPUTATION BY 1984
18. APPENDIX A: TECHNICAL COMPARISON OF FIVE EARLY BRITISH COMPUTERS
    1. THE MANCHESTER SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENTAL MACHINE (SSEM), KNOWN AS THE ‘BABY’
    2. THE CAMBRIDGE EDSAC
    3. THE FERRANTI MARK I’S INSTRUCTION FORMAT
    4. INSTRUCTION FORMAT FOR THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC DEUCE
19. APPENDIX B: TURING AND COMPUTING: A TIMELINE
    1. ALAN TURING AT NPL, 1945–8
    2. ALAN TURING AT MANCHESTER, 1948–54
20. APPENDIX C: FURTHER READING
    1. GENERAL ACCOUNTS OF THE PERIOD 1945–60
    2. CHAPTER-SPECIFIC BOOKs
21. BACK COVER