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78 relations: Accumulator (computing), Adder (electronics), Additive inverse, Alan Turing, Analytical Engine, Automatic Computing Engine, Bell Labs, Berlin, Binary number, Bit, Bletchley Park, British Computer Society, Cathode ray tube, Charles Babbage, Colossus computer, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Computer memory, Computer programming, Computing Machine Laboratory, Coprime integers, Delay line memory, Diode, Divisor, EDVAC, EF50, Electric charge, Electronic delay storage automatic calculator, Endianness, ENIAC, Ferranti Mark 1, Frederic Calland Williams, General Post Office, Geoff Tootill, History of computing hardware, Instruction set architecture, Instructions per second, J. Presper Eckert, John von Neumann, Konrad Zuse, List of vacuum tube computers, Manchester computers, Manchester Mark 1, Maurice Wilkes, Max Newman, Memory address, Mercury (element), Ministry of Supply, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester), National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), ..., Nature (journal), Opcode, Operand, Pentode, Post Office Research Station, Punched tape, Radar, Random-access memory, Reader (academic rank), Royal Society, Secondary emission, Stored-program computer, Subtraction, Technical University of Berlin, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Testbed, The Illustrated London News, Tom Kilburn, Tommy Flowers, Turing completeness, Turing machine, Two's complement, University of Pennsylvania, Vacuum tube, Victoria University of Manchester, Williams tube, Word (computer architecture), Z3 (computer). Expand index (28 more) »
Accumulator (computing)
In a computer's central processing unit (CPU), an accumulator is a register in which intermediate arithmetic and logic results are stored.
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Adder (electronics)
An adder is a digital circuit that performs addition of numbers.
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Additive inverse
In mathematics, the additive inverse of a number is the number that, when added to, yields zero.
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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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Automatic Computing Engine
The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was an early electronic stored-program computer designed by Alan Turing.
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Bell Labs
Nokia Bell Labs (formerly named AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Labs) is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.
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Binary number
In mathematics and digital electronics, a binary number is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, which uses only two symbols: typically 0 (zero) and 1 (one).
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Bit
The bit (a portmanteau of binary digit) is a basic unit of information used in computing and digital communications.
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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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British Computer Society
Sir Maurice Wilkes served as first President of BCS in 1957. The British Computer Society (BCS) is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology, both in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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Cathode ray tube
The cathode ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube that contains one or more electron guns and a phosphorescent screen, and is used to display images.
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.
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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 Laboratory, University of Cambridge
The Computer Laboratory is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge.
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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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Computer programming
Computer programming is the process of building and designing an executable computer program for accomplishing a specific computing task.
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Computing Machine Laboratory
The Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester in the north of England was established by Max Newman shortly after the end of World War II, around 1946.
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Coprime integers
In number theory, two integers and are said to be relatively prime, mutually prime, or coprime (also written co-prime) if the only positive integer (factor) that divides both of them is 1.
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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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Diode
A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance); it has low (ideally zero) resistance in one direction, and high (ideally infinite) resistance in the other.
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Divisor
In mathematics, a divisor of an integer n, also called a factor of n, is an integer m that may be multiplied by some integer to produce n. In this case, one also says that n is a multiple of m. An integer n is divisible by another integer m if m is a divisor of n; this implies dividing n by m leaves no remainder.
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EDVAC
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was one of the earliest electronic computers.
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EF50
In the field of electronics, the EF50 is an early all-glass wideband remote cutoff pentode designed in 1938 by Philips.
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Electric charge
Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.
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Electronic delay storage automatic calculator
The electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer.
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Endianness
Endianness refers to the sequential order in which bytes are arranged into larger numerical values when stored in memory or when transmitted over digital links.
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ENIAC
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was amongst the earliest electronic general-purpose computers made.
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Ferranti Mark 1
The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature, and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer.
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Frederic Calland Williams
Sir Frederic Calland Williams, (26 June 1911 – 11 August 1977), known as F.C. Williams or Freddie Williams, was an English engineer, a pioneer in radar and computer technology.
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General Post Office
The General Post Office (GPO) was officially established in England in 1660 by Charles II and it eventually grew to combine the functions of state postal system and telecommunications carrier.
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Geoff Tootill
Geoff C. Tootill (4 March 1922 – 26 October 2017) was an electronic engineer and computer scientist who worked in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Manchester with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn developing the Manchester Baby, "the world's first wholly electronic stored-program computer".
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History of computing hardware
The history of computing hardware covers the developments from early simple devices to aid calculation to modern day computers.
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Instruction set architecture
An instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model of a computer.
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Instructions per second
Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed.
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J. Presper Eckert
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
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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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Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse (22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer.
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List of vacuum tube computers
Vacuum tube computers, now termed first generation computers, are programmable digital computers using vacuum tube logic circuitry.
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Manchester computers
The Manchester computers were an innovative series of stored-program electronic computers developed during the 30-year period between 1947 and 1977 by a small team at the University of Manchester, under the leadership of Tom Kilburn.
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Manchester Mark 1
The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester from the Manchester Baby (operational in June 1948).
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Maurice Wilkes
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers and invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic to operate the control unit of a central processing unit's circuits.
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Max Newman
Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, FRS, (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984), generally known as Max Newman, was a British mathematician and codebreaker.
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Memory address
In computing, a memory address is a reference to a specific memory location used at various levels by software and hardware.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Ministry of Supply
The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK Government formed in 1939 to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply.
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Moore School of Electrical Engineering
The Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania came into existence as a result of an endowment from Alfred Fitler Moore on June 4, 1923.
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Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester)
The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI or formerly known as MOSI) in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology and industry with emphasis on the city's achievements in these fields.
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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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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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Opcode
In computing, an opcode (abbreviated from operation code, also known as instruction syllable, instruction parcel or opstring) is the portion of a machine language instruction that specifies the operation to be performed.
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Operand
In mathematics an operand is the object of a mathematical operation, i.e. it is the quantity that is operated on.
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Pentode
A pentode is an electronic device having five active electrodes.
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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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Punched tape
Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage, consisting of a long strip of paper in which holes are punched to store data.
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Radar
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.
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Random-access memory
Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of computer data storage that stores data and machine code currently being used.
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Reader (academic rank)
The title of reader in the United Kingdom and some universities in the Commonwealth of Nations, for example India, Australia and New Zealand, denotes an appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship.
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Royal Society
The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.
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Secondary emission
Secondary emission in physics is a phenomenon where primary incident particles of sufficient energy, when hitting a surface or passing through some material, induce the emission of secondary particles.
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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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Subtraction
Subtraction is an arithmetic operation that represents the operation of removing objects from a collection.
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Technical University of Berlin
The Technical University of Berlin (official name Technische Universität Berlin, known as TU Berlin) is a research university located in Berlin, Germany.
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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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Testbed
A testbed (also spelled test bed) is a platform for conducting rigorous, transparent, and replicable testing of scientific theories, computational tools, and new technologies.
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The Illustrated London News
The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.
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Tom Kilburn
Tom Kilburn (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001) was an English mathematician and computer scientist.
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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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Turing completeness
In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be Turing complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine.
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Turing machine
A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation that defines an abstract machine, which manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules.
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Two's complement
Two's complement is a mathematical operation on binary numbers, best known for its role in computing as a method of signed number representation.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.
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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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Victoria University of Manchester
The former Victoria University of Manchester, now the University of Manchester, was founded in 1851 as Owens College.
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Williams tube
The Williams tube, or the Williams–Kilburn tube after inventors Freddie Williams (26 June 1911 – 11 August 1977), and Tom Kilburn (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001), is an early form of computer memory.
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Word (computer architecture)
In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design.
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Z3 (computer)
The Z3 was a German electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby
