Bletchley Park, UK. 27. Juni 2013. Eine Seite der Montreal Standard ab 1944 verwendet, um ein Ventil für den EDSAC-Computer an der Universität Cambridge wickeln Sie nun bei The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park neu erstellt wird. Erste Teile der EDSAC Rekonstruktion zeigt sich in einer Feier des hundertjährigen Sir Maurice Wilkes, Vater des britischen computing Credit: John Robertson/Alamy Live News
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27. Juni 2013
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Bletchley, UK
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A page of The Montreal Standard from 1944 used to wrap a valve for the EDSAC computer at Cambridge University which is now being re-created at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Photo by John Robertson, 2013. 27th June, 2013. First working parts of the EDSAC reconstruction are demonstrated at a celebration of the centenary Sir Maurice Wilkes, father of British computing The centenary of the birth of Sir Maurice Wilkes, widely regarded as the father of British computing, has been celebrated with a demonstration of the first working parts of the recreation of EDSAC to be built and displayed at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park. EDSAC, originally designed by a team led by Wilkes at the University of Cambridge in 1947, was the world's first practical general purpose computer. Built to provide a computing service rather than just a computer, EDSAC's impact on both science and business were profound. By enabling complex and time-consuming calculations to be performed automatically and rapidly, it widened research horizons and led to three Nobel Prizes in different disciplines. In the business world, a copy of EDSAC, known as LEO, became the world's first commercial computer. At the Wilkes' centenary celebrations, the first components of the EDSAC reconstruction including its internal clock were demonstrated to an audience that included Wilkes' family members and an operator of the original EDSAC. The recreation of EDSAC, when completed by a team of volunteers in two years' time, will be used to inform the public about Britain's rich computer heritage and to inspire young people to learn about engineering and computer science, skills in short supply in today's economy. Andrew Herbert, leader of the EDSAC Replica Project, said: "Sir Maurice Wilkes is in the pantheon of computer greats. His practical vision was liberating and the impact of his work was profound. EDSAC speeded up productivity by a factor in the order of 1500 --
