[sdiy] Turing's Cathedral

[Dan Snazelle]

Not at all, he points out quite a few times how he basically took as their own many of their ideas, even going as far as to only put his name on the initial report

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On Apr 27, 2012, at 3:47 AM, Louis van Dompselaar <louis at dompselaar.org> wrote:

> I gather from reviews that the book is actually quite unfair to Eckert and Mauchly, focussing mainly on Von Neuamann.
> Does he actually misrepresent their work in that way?
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> Op 27 apr. 2012, om 03:23 heeft Dan Snazelle het volgende geschreven:
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>> Written by Freeman Dyson's son George, this book tells the story of the birth of the IAS (princeton inst for advncd study) computer....
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>> Tons of anctedotes about electronics, shift registers, flip-flops, (cathode ray) memory, as well as great stories of von neuman, einstein, turing, godel, IAS, etc
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>> Probrably the best book I read all year
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>> If you like science or history or the origins of computers, run out and get this.
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>> Thanks
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