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COMPUTERS AND AI -- BOWDEN, B.V., ed. Faster than Thought. A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines. Lond., Pitman, 1953. xix, 416 pp. W. front., 18 plates, 2 fold. diagrams and many illustr. in the text. Ocl.
"(This) book, which was probably originally intended as a sales tool, featured chapters on Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, and discussions of the Cambridge EDSAC, Turing's ACE, and, of course, early machines being developed at Manchester for Ferranti. Alan Turing authored Chapter 25, "Digital Computers Applied to Games." (…) Reflective of the relatively slow speed of advances in computing at this time, the book remained in print without change until 1968 even though by 1960 all the computers mentioned in the text were totally obsolete." J. Norman, Historyofinformation.com - Cf. The Origins of Cyberspace, 504.€ 150
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