TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lavington, Simon H.
AU  - Lavington, Simon H. 
AU  - Johnson, Roger 
AU  - Burton, Chris 
AU  - Campbell-Kelly, Martin 
TI  - Alan Turing and His Contemporaries: Building the World's First Computers
SN  - 9781906124908
U1  - 004.09 
PY  - 0000///012012///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - BCS Learning & Development Limited
KW  -  Information technology: general issues
KW  -  History of science
KW  - History of engineering & technology
N2  - Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers.  This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the post-war period. By 1955 computers had begun to appear in the market-place.  The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his contemporaries held centre stage.  Their influence is still discernable deep down within today's hardware and software
ER  -