Preface to Second Edition
1For a recent comprehensive treatise on embedded computers, see Fisher et al. (2005). For my article on the history emphasizing Turing’s role, see Davis (1988). For the suggested influence of my work see Leavitt (2006, p. 6). (All references are to the bibliography at the back of the book.)
Introduction
1The quotation is from Ceruzzi (1983, p. 43). Howard Aiken (1900–1973) founded the Harvard Computation Laboratory and was instrumental in the design and construction of large-scale calculating devices at Harvard during the 1940s and early 1950s.
2The quotation is from an address to the London Mathematical Society (Turing, 1992, pp. 112); (Copeland, 2004, p. 383). Alan Turing is the subject of Chapters 7 and 8 of ...
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