[sdiy] Turing's Cathedral

[Paul Burns]

Here is a link I found to an article on supercomputers a few years ago. Lee
Holcomb went on to a serious career at NASA, but my interest was the content
from John W. Lacey , my uncle, who, not jokingly used to employ Seymour
Cray. He studied Math at Oxford Uni, worked at GCHQ and left England to
design computers for what became the NSA in the States , met William Norris
and Cray and they went off with others to form Control Data. He is still
very involved with the Babbage Society.

He is still alive, we last had lunch about 4 years ago in my village in
Yorkshire.
  
http://www.4shared.com/office/eUfafCYS/Supercomputers.html

regards

Paul Burns


www.fitvideo.co.uk

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[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Dan Snazelle
Sent: 27 April 2012 18:07
To: Louis van Dompselaar
Cc: sdiy diy
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Turing's Cathedral

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?
> 
> 
> Op 27 apr. 2012, om 03:23 heeft Dan Snazelle het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> 
>> Written by Freeman Dyson's son George, this book tells the story of the
birth of the IAS (princeton inst for advncd study) computer....
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> Probrably the best book I read all year
>> 
>> 
>> If you like science or history or the origins of computers, run out and
get this.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
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