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4.0 out of 5 stars
he helped develop radar,
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This review is from: Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing) (Hardcover)
Wilkes' biography is interesting not just because he was one of the early computer pioneers. At a time when a computer was a person who used an electromechanical calculator, and not a machine that did computations. He also gives us a view into Britain of the 1930s and 40s.
Above all, of being involved in the development of radar. His experiences as one of the boffins during World War 2 makes good reading. He explains the life and death technical issues involved in developing radar and continually improving it. Until the US entered the war and the MIT Radar Lab took over most of the Allied radar effort, he and others in Britain were the front line of radar engineering. After the war, we see how he was involved with seminal ideas like microprogramming. These helped him win a Turing Award. |
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Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer (History of Computing) by M. V. Wilkes (Hardcover - September 4, 1985)
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