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, Robot Works Problems Never Before
Solved, _Popular Mechanics_, vol. 82,
Oct. 1944, p. 13.
ENIAC, THE ELECTRONIC NUMERIC INTEGRATOR AND CALCULATOR
There is as yet no full-scale, published scientific account of the
Eniac. At the Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen, Md., where
the machine now is, there are a few copies of some long mimeographed
reports on the machine and the way it works. These were prepared by
H. H. Goldstine and others when at the Moore School of Electrical
Engineering, as a part of the contract under which the machine was
constructed for the U. S. Government. It is possible that these reports
might be consulted on request by serious students.
Some scientific descriptions of the machine and its properties are:
BURKS, ARTHUR W., Electronic Computing
Circuits of the ENIAC, _Proceedings of the
Institute of Radio Engineers_, vol. 35, no. 8,
Aug. 1947, pp. 756-767.
CLIPPINGER, R. F., _A Logical Coding System
Applied to the Eniac_, B. R. L. Report No. 673,
Aberdeen, Md.: Ballistic Research Laboratories,
Sept. 29, 1948, 41 pp.
ECKERT, J. PRESPER, JR., JOHN W.
MAUCHLY, HERMAN H. GOLDSTINE, and
J. G. BRAINERD, Description of the ENIAC
and Comments on Electronic Digital Computing
Machines, Applied Mathematics Panel Report 171.2R,
Washington, D. C.: National Defense Research
Committee, Nov. 1945, 78 pp.
GOLDSTINE, HERMAN H., and ADELE
GOLDSTINE, The Electronic Numerical Integrator
and Computer (ENIAC), _Mathematical Tables and
Other Aids to Computation_, vol. 2, no. 15,
July 1946, pp. 97-110.
HARTREE, D. R., The ENIAC, an Electronic
Computing Machine, _Nature_, vol. 158,
Oct. 12, 1946, pp. 500-506.
HARTREE, D. R., _Calculating Machines:
Recent and Prospective Developments and Their
Impact on Mathematical Physics_, Cambridge,
England: The University Press, 1947, 40 pp.
(Pages 14 to 27 are devoted to the Eniac.)
TABOR, LEWIS P., Brief Description and
Operating Characteristics of the ENIAC,
_Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale
Digital Calculating Machinery_, Harvard
University Press, 1948, pp. 31-39.
Some of the less technical articles on Eniac are:
ROSE, A., Lightning Strikes Mathematics:
ENIAC, _Popular Science_, vol. 148,
Apr. 1946, pp. 83-86.
ANONYMOUS, Robot Calculator: ENIAC, All
Electronic Device, _Business Week_,
Feb. 16, 1946, p. 50 ...
ANONYMOUS, Answers by ENY: Electronic
Numerical Integrator and Computer, ENIAC,
_Newsweek_, vol. 27, Feb. 18, 1946, p. 76.
ANONYMOUS, Adds in ¹/₅₀₀₀ Second: Electronic
Computing Machine at the University of
Pennsylvania, _Science News Letter_, vol. 49,
Feb. 23, 1946, p. 113 ...
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