The ratio club: A hub of British cybernetics

P Husbands, O Holland - 2008 - direct.mit.edu
Writing in his journal on the twentieth of September, 1949, W. Ross Ashby noted that six
days earlier he'd attended a meeting at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, in the …

[图书][B] Technology for modelling: electrical analogies, engineering practice, and the development of analogue computing

C Care - 2010 - books.google.com
Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue computing. Some portray the
technology solely as a precursor to digital computing, whereas others stress that analogue …

[图书][B] A few hares to chase: the economic life and times of Bill Phillips

A Bollard - 2016 - books.google.com
The Phillips Curve is world famous amongst economists. The man who invented it was an
inventor, an engineer, a genius, who led an exciting life and contributed to economics in …

The origins of British cybernetics: the Ratio Club

O Holland, P Husbands - Kybernetes, 2011 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to describe the origins, members, activities, and
influence of the Ratio Club, a British cybernetic dining club that met between 1949 and …

The representation of knowledge and the relevance of biological models at the Symposium on the Mechanisation of Thought Processes, 1958

M Cobb - IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
“Mechanization of Thought Process” was an international conference involving researchers
from academia, government, industry, and the military that took place in the UK in 1958. It …

An asymmetric relationship: The spirit of Kenneth Craik and the work of Warren McCulloch

AF Collins - Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Warren McCulloch held Kenneth Craik's work in high regard. What was the source of this
high regard and did this good opinion mean that Craik's work had any effect on McCulloch's …

History of Computing

M Campbell-Kelly, G Alberts, J Copeland, JV Tucker - HoC_Courses. html - Springer
It has long been recognized that there is a relationship between logic and computer
programming. Since the 1940s many logicians, including Alan Turing and John von …

Introduction: Analogue Computers in the History of Computing

C Care, C Care - … : Electrical Analogies, Engineering Practice, and the …, 2010 - Springer
Today, modern computers are based on digital technology. Information is represented as
bits and bytes, sequences of binary 1s and 0s. Fundamental to the technology is the idea of …

[PDF][PDF] Working bibliography with some annotations

C Care - 2006 - Citeseer
Review, 59 (1): 97–99, 1941. John Vincent Atanasoff. The dielectric constant of helium.
Physical Review, 36 (7), 1930. John Vincent Atanasoff. Computing Machine for the solution …

[引用][C] A Few Hares to Chase: The Life and Economics of Bill Phillips

A Bollard - 2016 - Auckland University Press