Electronic Brains; how Computers Work
Author : Rolf Lohberg
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Author : Rolf Lohberg
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Author : Mike Hally
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
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Account of the birth of the modern computer from 1930-1960.
Author : Mike Hally
Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309096300
We've come so far, so fast. Within a relatively short period of time, we've managed to put enormous computing power in offices and homes around the globe. But before there was an IBM computer, before there were laptops and personal PCs, there were small independent teams of pioneers working on the development of the very first computer. Scattered around the globe and ranging in temperament and talent, they forged the future in basement labs, backyard, workshops, and old horse barns. Tracing the period just after World War II when the first truly modern computers were developed, Electronic Brains chronicles the escapades of the world's first "techies." Some of the initial projects are quite famous and well known, such as "LEO", the Lyons Electronic Office, which was developed by the catering company J. Lyons & Co. in London in the 1940s. Others are a bit more arcane, such as the ABC, which was built in a basement at Iowa State College and was abandoned to obscurity at the beginning of WWII. And then - like the tale of the Rand 409 which wss constructed in a barn in Connecticut under the watchful eye of a stuffed moose - there are the stories that are virtually unknown. All combine to create a fascinating history of a now-ubiquitous technology. Relying on extensive interviews from surviving members of the original teams of hardware jockeys, author Mike Hally recreates the atmosphere of the early days of computing. Rich with provocative and entertaining descriptions, we are introduced go the many eccentric, obsessive, and fiercely loyal men and women who laid the foundations for the computerized world in which we now live. As the acronyms fly fast and furious - UNIVAC, CSIRAC, and MESM, to name just a few - Electronic Brains provides a vivid sense of time, place, and science.
Author : B. Jack Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199609152
Rev. ed. of: Alan Turing's automatic computing engine / edited by B. Jack Copeland.
Author : Edmund Callis Berkeley
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Calculators
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Author : Rolf LOHBERG (and LUTZ (Theo))
Publisher :
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1966
Category :
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Author : Mark Humphries
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691213518
The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage through our sensory and motor regions. Neuroscientists call these blips “spikes.” Spikes enable us to do everything: talk, eat, run, see, plan, and decide. In The Spike, Mark Humphries takes readers on the epic journey of a spike through a single, brief reaction. In vivid language, Humphries tells the story of what happens in our brain, what we know about spikes, and what we still have left to understand about them. Drawing on decades of research in neuroscience, Humphries explores how spikes are born, how they are transmitted, and how they lead us to action. He dives into previously unanswered mysteries: Why are most neurons silent? What causes neurons to fire spikes spontaneously, without input from other neurons or the outside world? Why do most spikes fail to reach any destination? Humphries presents a new vision of the brain, one where fundamental computations are carried out by spontaneous spikes that predict what will happen in the world, helping us to perceive, decide, and react quickly enough for our survival. Traversing neuroscience’s expansive terrain, The Spike follows a single electrical response to illuminate how our extraordinary brains work.
Author : Ron White
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Computers
ISBN : 078974984X
Take a trip through the neural pathways and vital organs of your personal computer with the newest edition of this long-standing bestseller. Glorious full color illustrations make even the most complex subjects easy to understand. Follow PC/Computing senior editor and computer expert Ron White as he shows you the cutting edge technologies, including the Internet, multimedia sound and video, Pentium processors, local bus architecture, Plug and Play, CD-ROM, digital cameras, color printing, and more in new chapters on the hottest, and coolest, PC components.
Author : John Von Neumann
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780300084733
This book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann concludes that the brain operates in part digitally, in part analogically, but uses a peculiar statistical language unlike that employed in the operation of man-made computers. This edition includes a new foreword by two eminent figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness.