Faster than thoughtBowden, Bertram Vivian Bowden Baron Bowden
Faster than thought
by Bowden, Bertram Vivian Bowden Baron Bowden · first published 1971
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A few books on computer / computing / internet history: 1953, Faster Than Thought, B.V. Bowden (British 1940s & 50s) https://archive.org/details/FasterThanThought 1984, The Home Computer Wars (Commodore, Atari, Apple) https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Wars http://www.amazon.com/The-Home-Computer-Wars-Commodore/dp/09...…
on “Thoughts on the culture that gave birth to the personal computer (2013)” ↗…https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128429.Against_the_Gods The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable by James Owen Weatherall https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13356644-the-physics-of-... Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines (1953) by B. V. Bowden. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/10719/Faster-Than-Tho...
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?” ↗I suggest people look for Bowden "Faster than Thought" and put Turing in the context of his peers, and publishing of work that was contemporary, and current at the time. he writes in this about his work, alongside Wilkes and others of his contemporaries…
on “The deification of Alan Turing” ↗Her partner Andrew is in Bowden's work "faster than thought" but regrettably she doesn't seem to be. I think an oversight which would not be made now. What an amazing career she had. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth
on “Kathleen Booth, computer pioneer who made a major breakthrough in programming” ↗…Reconstructing Turing's "Paper Machine": https://en.chessbase.com/post/reconstructing-turing-s-paper-... The Google Docs link in this article is made private. However, Turing's original paper is available in "Faster Than Thought", page 288 onwards (https://archive.org/details/faster-than-thought-b.-v.-bowden...).
on “The Greenblatt chess program (1967) [pdf]” ↗