Alan Turing and His Contemporaries: Building the World's First Computers

By Martin Campbell-Kelly, Roger Johnson, Chris Burton

Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the post-war period. By 1955 computers had begun to appear in the market-place. The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his contemporaries held centre stage. Their influence is still discernable deep down within today's hardware and software.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906124906
• ISBN13: 9781906124908
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"