A century of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, 1882-1982
A century of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, 1882-1982
Making of the Micro: A History of the Computer
Making of the Micro: A History of the Computer
Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and the People Who Built Them
Early British Computers: The Story of Vintage Computers and the People Who Built Them
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann
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Project Whirlwind; The History of a Pioneer Computer
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Computability of analog networks
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Differential equations, infinite limits and real recursive functions
ACC'08 Proceedings of the WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computing Conference
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Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science Conference
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This article gives an account of the development and commercialization of general-purpose electronic analog computing in Britain and the United States of America from 1945 to the mid-1960s. The author argues that the principal influence on the growth and maturation of postwar commercial analog computing was the demand for aids to calculation in aeronautical design. The drive to develop military aircraft, guided weapons, and ICBMs provided the primary motivation and funds to develop analog and subsequently hybrid computer systems. The article describes the transition from mechanical to electronic analog computing, the formative projects and pioneering firms, and the commercialization of in-house computing systems.