دانلود کتاب The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers

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Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-18
On the Mathematical Powers of the Calculating Engine....Pages 19-54
Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor C ayley , Dr. F arr , 2.2. Mr. J. W. L. G laisher , Dr. P ole , Professor F uller , Professor A. B. W. K ennedy , Professor C lifford , and Mr. C. W. M errifield , appointed to consider the advisability and to estimate the expense of constructing Mr. B abbage’s Analytical Machine, and of printing Tables by its means .....Pages 55-65
Babbage’s Analytical Engine....Pages 67-70
On a Proposed Analytical Machine....Pages 73-87
Essays on Automatics....Pages 89-107
Electromechanical Calculating Machine....Pages 109-120
Scheme of Assembly of a Machine Suitable for the Calculations of Celestial Mechanics....Pages 121-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-131
An Electric Tabulating System....Pages 133-143
Calculating Machines: Their Principles and Evolution....Pages 145-154
The Automatic Calculator IPM....Pages 155-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-161
Method for Automatic Execution of Calculations with the Aid of Computers....Pages 163-170
Technical Computing Machines....Pages 171-173
The Outline of a Computer Development from Mechanics to Electronics....Pages 175-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-194
Proposed automatic calculating machine....Pages 195-201
The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator—I....Pages 203-222
Electrons and Computation....Pages 223-232
The IBM Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator....Pages 233-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-245
Computer....Pages 247-252
The Relay Interpolator....Pages 253-256
Front Matter....Pages 241-245
The Ballistic Computer....Pages 257-261
A Bell Telephone Laboratories’ Computing Machine—I....Pages 263-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-301
Binary Calculation....Pages 303-314
Computing Machine for the Solution of large Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations....Pages 315-335
Arithmetical Machine....Pages 337-343
Report on Electronic Predictors for Anti-Aircraft Fire Control....Pages 345-347
Colossus: Godfather of the Computer....Pages 349-354
The Use of High Speed Vacuum Tube Devices for Calculating....Pages 355-358
The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)....Pages 359-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-381
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC....Pages 383-392
Preparation of Problems for EDVAC-Type Machines....Pages 393-397
Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument....Pages 399-413
Electronic Digital Computers....Pages 415-416
The EDSAC....Pages 417-421
The E.D.S.A.C. Demonstration....Pages 423-429
Front Matter....Pages 9-18
Babbage’s Analytical Engine....Pages 581-581
Back Matter....Pages 431-580