• DocumentCode
    989253
  • Title

    Five 1951 BBC broadcasts on automatic calculating machines

  • Author

    Jones, Allan

  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    3
  • Lastpage
    15
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2004.1299654
  • Filename
    1299654
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=989253