"By June 1949 people had begun to realize that it was not so easy to get programs right as had at one time appeared. I…"

"Since 1954, the raw speed of computers, as measured by the time it takes to do an addition, increased by a factor of …"

"A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct exper…"

"Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view wa…"

"In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [..…"

"Surveying the shifts of interest among computer scientists and the ever-expanding family of those who depend on compu…"

"Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"