Title :
Five 1951 BBC broadcasts on automatic calculating machines
Abstract :
In May and June 1951, five leading figures of British computing - Douglas Hartree, Max Newman, Alan Turing, Frederic ("Freddie") Williams, and Maurice Wilkes - spoke about their work on BBC radio. We examine surviving texts of their broadcasts, and the speakers\´ principal points are summarized through quotations and commentary. The broadcasts are placed in the context of contemporary developments in computing and the particular BBC service on which they were broadcast.
Keywords :
electronic calculators; history; Alan Turing; BBC radio broadcasts; BBC service; Douglas Hartree; Frederic Williams; Maurice Wilkes; Max Newman; automatic calculating machines; Broadcast technology; Context-aware services; Cultural differences; IEEE news; Radio broadcasting; Recruitment; Speech; Switches;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2004.1299654
