Copyright -- CONTENTS -- AUTHORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 THE IDEAS MEN -- SCIENCE AT WAR -- THE MOORE SCHOOL: THE CRADLE OF ELECTRONIC COMPUTING -- THE UNIVERSAL TURING MACHINE -- PRACTICAL PROBLEMS, 1945-7 -- THE RICH TAPESTRY OF PROJECTS, 1948-54 -- 2 ACES AND DEUCES -- TURING'S FIRST COMPUTER DESIGN -- TOIL AND TROUBLE -- INTELLIGENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- PILOT ACE ARRIVES AT LAST -- 3 IVORY TOWERS AND TEA ROOMS -- MAURICE WILKES AND THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL LABORATORY -- POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND THE STORED-PROGRAM COMPUTER -- A MEMORY FOR EDSAC -- EDSAC, ACE AND LEO -- NOT JUST EDSAC -- FIRST STEPS IN PROGRAMMING -- WILKES, WHEELER AND GILL -- THE LAST DAYS OF THE EDSAC -- 4 THE MANCHESTER MACHINES -- MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS... -- THE BABY COMPUTER -- THE BABY GROWS UP -- FERRANTI ENTERS THE PICTURE -- A SUPERCOMPUTER -- PROGRAMS AND USERS -- WHAT CAME NEXT? -- 5 MEANWHILE, IN DEEPEST HERTFORDSHIRE -- THE ADMIRALTY'S SECRET -- INNOVATIONS AT BOREHAMWOOD -- SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES -- THE COMING OF AUTOMATION -- 6 ONE MAN IN A BARN -- X-RAY CALCULATIONS -- THE CHALLENGE OF MEMORY -- COMPUTERS FOR ALL! -- THE BOOTH MUTIPLIER -- COMMERCIAL SUCCESS -- 7 INTO THE MARKETPLACE -- OUT OF THE LABORATORY -- DEFENCE AND THE COLD WAR -- SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING -- THE WORLD OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS -- THE MARKET GROWS AND THE MANUFACTURERS SHRINK -- 8 HINDSIGHT AND FORESIGHT: THE LEGACY OF TURING AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES -- WHO DID WHAT, AND WHEN? -- TURING AS SEEN BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES -- TURING'S REPUTATION BY 1984 -- APPENDIX A: TECHNICAL COMPARISON OF FIVE EARLY BRITISH COMPUTERS -- THE MANCHESTER SMALL-SCALE EXPERIMENTAL MACHINE (SSEM), KNOWN AS THE 'BABY' -- INSTRUCTION FORMAT FOR THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC DEUCE -- APPENDIX B: TURING AND COMPUTING: A TIMELINE -- ALAN TURING AT NPL, 1945-8.

ALAN TURING AT MANCHESTER, 1948-54 -- APPENDIX C: FURTHER READING -- GENERAL ACCOUNTS OF THE PERIOD 1945-60 -- CHAPTER-SPECIFIC BOOKS -- INDEX -- Back Cover.