Title :
Max Newman: Topologist, Codebreaker, and Pioneer of Computing
Author_Institution :
University of Portsmouth
Abstract :
The dominant discourse in the History of Computing holds that the world\´s first stored-program digital electronic computer--the Manchester "Baby"--was developed under the sole leadership and direction of the Department of Electro-Technics. This biography, which arises out of a detailed re-examination of the historical evidence, challenges the dominant account of the project and re-situates the mathematician M.H.A. Newman as its overall leader.
Keywords :
Cities and towns; Education; Educational institutions; Fellows; Finishing; History; Mathematics; Military computing; Scholarships; Watches; Baby; Blackett; Kilburn; Manchester; Newman; SSEM; Williams;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2007.4338447