The Computers that Made the World

Discover the birth of the technological world we now live in through the origins of 12 influentialcomputers built between 1939 and 1950.

In 1940, a computer was someone who ploughed through grueling calculations each day. A decade later, acomputer was a buzzing machine that filled a room. This book tells the story of how our world was reshapedby a dozen such computers - and the geniuses that brought them into being, from Alan Turing to John vonNeumann.

This world tour through the modern history of computing begins in 1939 with the first electronic digitalcomputer, the Atanasoff-Berry computer (ABC). The story of computing in World War II takes readersthrough Germany, UK, and the US, before covering the explosive post-war years when anything seemedpossible. Learn the fascinating stories behind the Manchester Baby, EDSAC, EDVAC, UNIVAC, PrincetonIAS, and Alan Turing's Pilot ACE and the birth of artificial intelligence.

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