Simon Lavington: 4 books
Alan Turing and his Contemporaries
Building the world's first computers
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. Alan Turing took an early lead on the theory side, along with fellow mathematicians on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the story of...
Moving Targets
Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 – 67
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This book charts the take-up of IT in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one company. It examines how the dawn of the digital computer age in Britain took place for different applications, from early government-sponsored work on secret defence projects, to the growth of the market for Elliott computers...
Early Computing in Britain
Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding, 1948 — 1958
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2019
This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. – producer of the first commercially-available computers – and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The text presents personal reminiscences...
by Simon H. Lavington, Alex A. Freitas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Mining Very Large Databases with Parallel Processing addresses the problem of large-scale data mining. It is an interdisciplinary text, describing advances in the integration of three computer science areas, namely `intelligent' (machine learning-based) data mining techniques, relational databases...