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38 relations: Alan Turing, Analytical Engine, Bendix Corporation, Bendix G-15, Bletchley Park, Charles Babbage, Charles Babbage Institute, Clock rate, Colossus computer, Computer, Computer memory, Data storage, Delay line memory, Difference engine, Dollis Hill, EDVAC, EMI, English Electric, English Electric DEUCE, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, Harry Huskey, Hertz, John R. Womersley, John von Neumann, Kilobyte, National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), Official Secrets Act, Packard Bell (1926), Personal computer, Pilot ACE, Post Office Research Station, Royal Radar Establishment, Stored-program computer, Subroutine, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Tommy Flowers, Universal Turing machine, Vacuum tube.
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
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Analytical Engine
The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage.
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Bendix Corporation
The Bendix Corporation was an American manufacturing and engineering company which during various times in its 60-year existence (1924–1983) made automotive brake shoes and systems, vacuum tubes, aircraft brakes, aeronautical hydraulics and electric power systems, avionics, aircraft and automobile fuel control systems, radios, televisions and computers.
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Bendix G-15
The Bendix G-15 computer was introduced in 1956 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California.
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Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park was the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II.
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.
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Charles Babbage Institute
The Charles Babbage Institute is a research center at the University of Minnesota specializing in the history of information technology, particularly the history of digital computing, programming/software, and computer networking since 1935.
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Clock rate
The clock rate typically refers to the frequency at which a chip like a central processing unit (CPU), one core of a multi-core processor, is running and is used as an indicator of the processor's speed.
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Colossus computer
Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.
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Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.
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Computer memory
In computing, memory refers to the computer hardware integrated circuits that store information for immediate use in a computer; it is synonymous with the term "primary storage".
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Data storage
Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.
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Delay line memory
Delay line memory is a form of computer memory, now obsolete, that was used on some of the earliest digital computers.
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Difference engine
A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
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Dollis Hill
Dollis Hill is an area in northwest London, which consists of the streets surrounding the 35 hectares (86 acres) Gladstone Park.
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EDVAC
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers.
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EMI
EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
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English Electric
The English Electric Company Limited was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice of World War I at the end of 1918.
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English Electric DEUCE
The DEUCE (Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine) was one of the earliest British commercially available computers, built by English Electric from 1955.
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First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
The First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (commonly shortened to First Draft) is an incomplete 101-page document written by John von Neumann and distributed on June 30, 1945 by Herman Goldstine, security officer on the classified ENIAC project.
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Harry Huskey
Harry Douglas Huskey (January 19, 1916 – April 9, 2017) was an American computer design pioneer.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.
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John R. Womersley
John Ronald Womersley (20 June 1907 – 7 March 1958) was a British mathematician and computer scientist who made important contributions to computer development, and hemodynamics.
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann (Neumann János Lajos,; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and polymath.
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Kilobyte
The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
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National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the national measurement standards laboratory for the United Kingdom, based at Bushy Park in Teddington, London, England.
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Official Secrets Act
"Official Secrets Act" is a term used in Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom, and formerly in Canada and New Zealand for legislation that provides for the protection of state secrets and official information, mainly related to national security.
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Packard Bell (1926)
Packard Bell was an American regional radio manufacturer founded in 1933 by Herbert A. Bell and Leon Packard.
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Personal computer
A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.
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Pilot ACE
The Pilot ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) was one of the first computers built in the United Kingdom at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the early 1950s.
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Post Office Research Station
The Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, north west London, was first established in 1925 and opened by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in 1933.
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Royal Radar Establishment
The Royal Radar Establishment is a research center in Malvern, Worcestershire in the United Kingdom.
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Stored-program computer
A stored-program computer is a computer that stores program instructions in electronic memory.
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Subroutine
In computer programming, a subroutine is a sequence of program instructions that performs a specific task, packaged as a unit.
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Telecommunications Research Establishment
The Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) was the main United Kingdom research and development organization for radio navigation, radar, infra-red detection for heat seeking missiles, and related work for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II and the years that followed.
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Tommy Flowers
Thomas Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British Post Office.
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Universal Turing machine
In computer science, a universal Turing machine (UTM) is a Turing machine that can simulate an arbitrary Turing machine on arbitrary input.
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Vacuum tube
In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions) is a device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated container.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Computing_Engine
