Customer Review: Wilkes' biography is interesting not just because he was one of the early computer pioneers. At a time when a computer was a person who used an electromechanical calculator, and not a machine that did computations. He also gives us a view into Britain of the 1930s and 40s. Above all, of being... more info
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A review by Frederick A. Ware
This book is volume six in the Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing. Douglas Hartree was primarily a physicist, his most significant contribution being the Hartree-Fock self-consistent... more info
Customer Review: This book separates the key events in history from all the noise and hype. After Fred Brooks book The Mythical Man-Month, this is the best brief survey of the subject from one who helped to create it.
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