8HINDSIGHT AND FORESIGHT: THE LEGACY OF TURING AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Simon Lavington
WHO DID WHAT, AND WHEN?
It might be said that the theoretical basis for all modern computers stems from Alan Turing’s 1936–7 paper ‘On Computable Numbers’, and that the physical structure of all computers stems from John von Neumann’s 1945 EDVAC Report. This is not quite the full picture. However, trying to be precise about historical connections seems rather academic because computing has changed in such dramatic ways since the early 1950s. In any case, no single individual or laboratory was indispensable to the birth of the Information Age.
In the context of early British computers, it is nevertheless interesting to summarise the material in earlier chapters ...
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