Faster than thought
Subtitle: a symposium on digital computing machines.
By: With a foreword by the Earl of Halsbury.
Publisher: Pitman
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Computers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: v
label: Foreword; title: vii
label: Preface; title: xv
label: List of Contributors; title: xvii
label: Contents; title: xix
label: List of Plates; label: PART ONE: The History and Theory of Computing Machines; title: 3
label: 1. A Brief History of Computation; title: 32
label: 2. The Circuit Components of Digital Computers; title: 67
label: 3. The Organization of a Typical Machine; title: 78
label: 4. The Construction, Performance and Maintenance of Digital Computers; title: 101
label: 5. Programming for High-speed Digital Calculating Machines; label: PART TWO: Electronic Computing Machines in Britain and America; title: 117
label: 6. The University of Manchester Computing Machine; title: 130
label: 7. Calculating Machine Development at Cambridge; title: 135
label: 8. Automatic Computation at the National Physical Laboratory; title: 140
label: 9. The Harwell Electronic Digital Computer; title: 144
label: 10. The Telecommunications Research Establishment Parallel Electronic Digital Computer; title: 161
label: 11. The Imperial College Computing Engine; title: 165
label: 12. The Royal Aircraft Establishment Sequence-controlled Calculator; title: 170
label: 13. Calculating Machines at the Birkbeck College Computation Laboratory; title: 173
label: 14. Computers in America; label: PART THREE: Applications of Electronic Computing Machines; title: 181
label: 15. Machines for the Solution of Logical Problems; title: 199
label: 16. Special-purpose Automatic Computers; title: 203
label: 17. Digital Computation and the Crystallographer; title: 210
label: 18. The Use of High-speed Computing Machines in Meteorology; title: 216
label: 19. An Application to Ballistics; title: 223
label: 20. Digital Computers and the Engineer; title: 234
label: 21. Machines in Government Calculations; title: 246
label: 22. The Application of Digital Computers to Business and Commerce; title: 272
label: 23. Electronic Machines and Economics; title: 282
label: 24. Problems of Dynamical Astronomy; title: 286
label: 25. Digital Computers Applied to Games; title: 311
label: 26. Thought and Machine Processes; title: 341
label: Appendix 1. Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. by L.F. Menabrea, translated and with notes by Ada Lovelace; title: 409
label: Appendix 2. Extracts from the Lovelace Papers; title: 411
label: Glossary; title: 415
label: Index