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NEWMAN, Maxwell H. A. (1897-1984). "General principles of the design of all-purpose computing machines." In HARTREE, Douglas R. et al. A discussion on computing machines (December 1948): 271-74. Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 195 (1948).
4o. Unbound. Signed by Max Newman and Maurice V. Wilkes on p. 265. Boxed.
FIRST EDITION. Newman was one of Turing's teachers at Cambridge, and in 1936 Turing presented the draft text of his "On computable numbers" to Newman for review in response to Newman's statement that Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem remained an open question. Newman became interested in computing machines during the second world war when, as leader of the Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park, he helped to develop the Heath Robinson and Colossus machines for deciphering German codes. After the war he joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Manchester, where with the aid of a grant from the Royal Society he established the university's computer laboratory. He supervised the design and construction of the Manchester Mark I machine, the "Baby" prototype version of which (completed in June 1948) was the first operational stored-program electronic digital computer, though it operated only briefly. After the full Manchester Mark I was operational Turing joined the staff at the Manchester computer laboratory as head programmer.
Newman's paper on the general principles of computer design was part of a discussion on automatic digital, general-purpose computing machines that was held on March 4, 1948, with Douglas Hartree, Maurice Wilkes, Frederic C. Williams, James H. Wilkinson, and Andrew D. Booth also participating.This was first symposium on electronic computing in England for which proceedings were published. OOC 818.
[Also included:] HARTREE et al. "A discussion on computing machines." -- HARTREE. "A historical survey of digital computing machines." OOC 651. -- [TURING]. WILKINSON, James Hardy. "The automatic computing engine at the National Physical Laboratory." Wilkinson, Turing's first assistant on the ACE project, began working at the NPL on May 1, 1946. His report on the ACE focuses on the increased computing speed gained by its architecture, and on the advantages of optimum coding for reducing delays. Wilkinson's paper forms part of a discussion on automatic digital general-purpose computers that took place on March 4, 1948. OOC 933. -- WILKES. "Design of a practical high-speed computing machine. The EDSAC." This brief account of the design and capabilities of EDSAC -- which was "in a high state of completion" at the time -- is Wilkes's first publication on EDSAC as a whole. OOC 1018. -- WILLIAMS, Frederic Calland. "A cathode-ray tube digit store." The present paper, describing the principles of the Williams tube's design and operation, may be the earliest that Williams personally wrote on the subject OOC 1065. This lot contains OOC 490, 650, 651, 818, 933, 1018, 1065.
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FIRST EDITION. Newman was one of Turing's teachers at Cambridge, and in 1936 Turing presented the draft text of his "On computable numbers" to Newman for review in response to Newman's statement that Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem remained an open question. Newman became interested in computing machines during the second world war when, as leader of the Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park, he helped to develop the Heath Robinson and Colossus machines for deciphering German codes. After the war he joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Manchester, where with the aid of a grant from the Royal Society he established the university's computer laboratory. He supervised the design and construction of the Manchester Mark I machine, the "Baby" prototype version of which (completed in June 1948) was the first operational stored-program electronic digital computer, though it operated only briefly. After the full Manchester Mark I was operational Turing joined the staff at the Manchester computer laboratory as head programmer.
Newman's paper on the general principles of computer design was part of a discussion on automatic digital, general-purpose computing machines that was held on March 4, 1948, with Douglas Hartree, Maurice Wilkes, Frederic C. Williams, James H. Wilkinson, and Andrew D. Booth also participating.This was first symposium on electronic computing in England for which proceedings were published. OOC 818.
[Also included:] HARTREE et al. "A discussion on computing machines." -- HARTREE. "A historical survey of digital computing machines." OOC 651. -- [TURING]. WILKINSON, James Hardy. "The automatic computing engine at the National Physical Laboratory." Wilkinson, Turing's first assistant on the ACE project, began working at the NPL on May 1, 1946. His report on the ACE focuses on the increased computing speed gained by its architecture, and on the advantages of optimum coding for reducing delays. Wilkinson's paper forms part of a discussion on automatic digital general-purpose computers that took place on March 4, 1948. OOC 933. -- WILKES. "Design of a practical high-speed computing machine. The EDSAC." This brief account of the design and capabilities of EDSAC -- which was "in a high state of completion" at the time -- is Wilkes's first publication on EDSAC as a whole. OOC 1018. -- WILLIAMS, Frederic Calland. "A cathode-ray tube digit store." The present paper, describing the principles of the Williams tube's design and operation, may be the earliest that Williams personally wrote on the subject OOC 1065. This lot contains OOC 490, 650, 651, 818, 933, 1018, 1065.
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