Giant brains; or, Machines that thinkBerkeley, Edmund Callis
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Giant brains; or, Machines that think
Berkeley, Edmund Callis
Computers -- Popular works
ANONYMOUS, Electrical Gun Director
Demonstrated, _Bell Laboratories Record_,
vol. 22, no. 4, Dec. 1943, pp. 157-167.
ANONYMOUS, Development of the Electric
Director, _Bell Laboratories Record_, vol. 22,
no. 5, Jan. 1944, pp. 225-230.
ANONYMOUS, Old Field Fortune Teller:
Electronic Oil Pool Analyzer, _Popular
Mechanics_, vol. 86, Sept. 1946, p. 154.
HARVARD IBM AUTOMATIC SEQUENCE-CONTROLLED CALCULATOR
The basic scientific description of this machine as of September 1,
1945, is contained in:
AIKEN, HOWARD H., and STAFF OF THE
COMPUTATION LABORATORY, _A Manual of
Operation for the Automatic Sequence-Controlled
Calculator_, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1946, 561 pp.
The machine has changed rather a good deal since Sept. 1, 1945. Some
circuits have been removed. Other circuits have been added. The
capacity of the machine to do problems has been greatly increased.
The Computation Laboratory at Harvard University is cordial towards
scientific inquiries, and some unpublished, mimeographed information is
available at the laboratory regarding the details of these changes.
Some shorter scientific and technical descriptions of the machine are
contained in:
AIKEN, HOWARD H., and GRACE
M. HOPPER, The Automatic Sequence
Controlled Calculator (3 parts), _Electrical
Engineering_, vol. 65, nos. 8, 9, and 10,
Aug. to Nov. 1946, p. 384 ... (21 pp.).
BLOCH, RICHARD M., Mark I Calculator,
_Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale
Digital Calculating Machinery_, Harvard
University Press, 1948, pp. 23-30.
HARRISON, JOSEPH O., JR., The Preparation of
Problems for the Mark I Calculator, _Proceedings
of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating
Machinery_, Harvard University Press, 1948,
pp. 208-210.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION,
_IBM Automatic Sequence-Controlled
Calculator_, Endicott, N. Y.: International
Business Machines Corporation, 1945, 6 pp.
Some of the less technical articles regarding the machine are:
GENET, N., Got a Problem? Harvard’s Amazing
New Mathematical Robot, _Scholastic_, vol. 45,
Sept. 18, 1944, p. 35.
TORREY, V., Robot Mathematician Knows All the
Answers, _Popular Science_, vol. 145,
Oct. 1944, pp. 86-89....
ANONYMOUS, Giant New Calculator, _Science
News Letter_, vol. 46, Aug. 12, 1944, p. 111.
ANONYMOUS, Mathematical Robot Presented to
Harvard, _Time_, vol. 44, Aug. 14, 1944, p. 72.
ANONYMOUS, World’s Greatest Machine for
Automatic Calculation, _Science News Letter_,
vol. 46, Aug. 19, 1944, p. 123.
ANONYMOUS, Superbrain, _Nation’s
Business_, vol. 32, Sept. 1944, p. 8.
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